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AIDS and Older Persons: The View from Thailand |
Although
little attention has been paid to older adults in the context
of the global AIDS epidemic, they not only can contract HIV
themselves but, far more commonly, they experience multiple
consequences as in their role as parents of younger adults who
become ill and die from AIDS. Older persons also make
significant contributions to the well-being of younger adults
who suffer from AIDS by playing a major role in caregiving to
their infected sons and daughters and by assuming the role of
foster parents for their grandchildren who are left behind as
AIDS orphans emphasizing the consequences for and the
contributions by older persons in their role as AIDS parents. |
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AIDS IN THAILAND |
The
disease advance everywhere, accomplice the disinformation,
than cause a good slice of the Thai population to confuse the
AIDS with one cardiovascular disease. " In the small villages
one still believes that many die of infarct, but we have
culvert accurate searches that demonstrate clearly as in the
rural zones it dies itself mostly of AIDS ", |
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Breaking Through the Clouds-PAR project with migrant children
and youth along the borders of China, Myanmar and Thailand |
The
vulnerabilities of migrant children and youth are not only the
result of limited understanding and documentation, but also
due to the lack of insight into how best to address their
realities…This is particularly the case for young girls
trafficked into the sex-industry, or as domestic workers,
those abusing drugs, child beggars and young migrants
separated from their family members in immigration detention
centers. |
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Children in
prostitution, pornography and illicit
activities-Thailand-Magnitude of problems and remedies |
Children
younger than 18 years of age in prostitution are invariable
victims of sexual exploitation. Compared to adults, they are
clearly much more vulnerable and helpless in fact of the
established structures and vested interests in the sex sector,
and much more likely to be victims of debt bondage, trafficking,
physical violence, or torture. Commercial sexual exploitation
is a serious form of violence against children with life-long
and life-threatening consequences. |
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Cost
of Medical Services for Patients with HIV/AIDS in Khon Kaen,
Thailand
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The authors undertook to estimate the savings and cost of
providing highly active antiretroviral therapy to adult
patients with AIDS under Universal Coverage (UC) in Khon Kaen,
a rural province in northeast Thailand
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Evolution of Thailand’s strategy to cope with the HIV/AIDS
epidemic |
HIV/AIDS
is the highest-ranking cause of death among working-age
adults in Thailand. The disease has led to incalculable
human suffering and social disruption, as well as huge
economic costs. Yet, through an innovative, comprehensive
strategy, Thailand has become the first country in the
developing world where declines in HIV prevalence are seen
nationally and the HIV epidemic has been successfully
controlled through a prevention strategy. |
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HIV and AIDS |
In
Thailand, the primary means of transmission of HIV is by
heterosexual sex, overwhelmingly HIV subtype E. A second
group is intravenous drug users (IDU's), most of whom are
infected with HIV subtype B, the subtype most common in
western homosexuals and IDU's, and which is apparently
difficult to transmit heterosexually |
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How
Globalization Elicits the Illicit: Liberalization and Crime in
Thailand |
Globalization, over the course of the last decade, has had a
profound effect on the economies of nations worldwide. It has
been responsible for fundamental, structural adjustments in
the political and economic formats of most, if not all,
developing countries during the 1980s and 1990s. In light of
the truism that economies, political systems and
social/cultural positional ties are interdependent entities,
the effects of globalization on nation-states are felt in all
sectors of society. |
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Levels and determinants of expenditure on HIV/AIDS in Thailand |
As
Thailand enters the second decade of the AIDS pandemic, the
NACP has evolved in complex and interrelated ways in response
to the changing epidemic and lessons learned about prevention
and control |
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Migration, trafficking & Exploitation of Women in Thailand |
Health and
HIV/AIDS risks for Burmese and Hill tribe women and girls.
This report describes the policy failures of the government of
Thailand, despite a program widely hailed as a model of HIV
prevention for the region. |
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Older Aged Parents: The Final Safety Net for Adults Sons and
Daughters with AIDS in Thailand |
The
present study focuses on the role of family members,
especially of older aged parents, in the care and support
of adults with AIDS and their dependents. Understanding
the circumstances, nature, and extent of familial support
and caregiving for AIDS afflicted persons and the roll
played by older aged parents and other members of the
family network is crucial if the limited state and
non-governmental resources designed to improve the quality
of life persons with AIDS and to ease the burden imposed
by the epidemic on their families are to be appropriately
targeted. |
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OPEN-ENDED PROSTITUTION AS A SKILLFUL GAME OF LUCK |
Rural to
urban migrants from depressed areas of Thailand, and
particularly the Northeast (Isaan), move into Bangkok in
ever-greater numbers in search of employment and income for
their own subsistence or for the support of their relatives back
home. Prominent among these are large numbers of young women,
many of whom hope to make enough money in the city to be able to
support not only themselves, but also their parents, siblings
and children. They soon realize that the employment
opportunities for uneducated and unskilled workers are severely
limited. In fact, it appears that in recent years the
opportunity structure facing unskilled in-migrant women in
Bangkok has even contracted. |
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Parental Bereavement-Heterogeneous Impacts of AIDS in Thailand |
Much has
been written on the subject of AIDS about the sufferers
themselves, and some about their spouses and children.
Less attention has been devoted to the older generation,
to parents whose adult children are infected and die,
parents who often bear the responsibility for caregiving
and endure the sorrows and consequences of loss |
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Perceptions of HIV/AIDS and caring for people with
terminal AIDS in southern Thailand |
This study presents data collected from village-based
ethnographic research conducted in southern Thailand in
1995-1996, and focuses on perceptions of HIV/AIDS infection,
patients with AIDS and theft provision of care. Individual interviews
were conducted with 300 village women…In addition, 23 people
with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers participated in subsequent
in-depth interviews. Participants generally obtained theft information
about HIV/AIDS from television and radio, and the information they
obtained was generally negative. AIDS was perceived as a disease
associated with dirt, danger and death, although it was also
considered to be a disease of karma (rok khong khon mee kam)
and a 'woman's disease' (rok phuying) associated with prostitution.
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Prostitution in Thailand: A North South dialogue on
neocolonialism, militarism, and consumerism |
Sinit
began by disclosing the staggering numbers of prostitutes in
Thailand and the places where they work. The Vietnam War was
mentioned as a contributing factor in the growth of
prostitution in Thailand during the 1960s. Instead of being
collapsed by the withdrawal of the American forces from
Vietnam in mid-1970s as expected, the sex and service
industries in Thailand were sustained by tourist 'troops' and
local clientele who adopted the Gl pattern of recreations and
maintained the Thai permissive code of conduct for males. To
justify their business, some sex tour operators regarded their
operation as a new kind of development aid to the Third World
poor women. |
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Thai views of sexuality and sexual behaviour |
Although
women did not express negative views about marrying a virgin
man, for most it seemed pointless to contemplate this.
Indeed, many accepted the double standard implicit in the
belief that men needed sexual experience before getting
married. This was evident in their tolerance of husbands'
prior visits to prostitutes. Women were also generally
accepting of premarital non- commercial sexual relationships
that their husbands might have had, although typically they
expressed greater concern about prior affairs than about
premarital patronage of prostitutes. Women's main interest
in this connection was getting assurance that any earlier
relationships were ended and would not resume. |
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Thailand
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Monitoring HIV infection and AIDS in Thailand
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Thailand's
Brothel Busters
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A U.S.-based group is spurring high-profile raids to free
sex workers. But what happens when the women don't want to be
saved?
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Thailand- Costs of Medical Services for Patients with HIV/AIDS
in Khon Kaen, Thailand |
The authors
found that the average cost per outpatient visit
with and without antiretroviral drugs was US$294.20 and
US$26.10 respectively. The average cost per inpatient day with
and without ARV drugs was US$368.10 and US$43.80 respectively. |
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Thailand Response to
AIDS |
There are very few developing countries in the world where
public policy has been effective in preventing the spread of
HIV/AIDS on a national scale.
Thailand--where a massive program to control HIV has reduced
visits to commercial sex workers by half, raised condom usage,
curtailed STDs dramatically, and achieved substantial
reductions in new HIV infections--is an exception
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The Economic Impact of
HIV/AIDS Mortality on Households in Thailand
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Reported data on AIDS cases in Thailand suggest that
laborers and agricultural workers, who are generally the
poorest and least educated, are the most susceptible to AIDS.
The largest proportion of AIDS cases has been reported in
Thailand’s northern provinces, mainly in rural areas.
Because AIDS infects mainly adults of prime working age and no
cure is available, an adult AIDS death can cause further
immiseration of the poor in rural areas
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The
Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS Mortality on Households in Thailand
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Reported
data on AIDS cases in Thailand suggest that laborers and
agricultural workers, who are generally the poorest and least
educated, are the most susceptible to AIDS. The largest
proportion of AIDS cases has been reported in Thailand’s
northern provinces, mainly in rural areas. Because AIDS
infects mainly adults of prime working age and no cure is
available, an adult AIDS death can cause further immiseration
of the poor in rural areas
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