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NGOs target Pattaya drug users, transgenders in fight against HIV
Representatives of international NGO’s meet
with local health workers to try and help prevent the spread of HIV and
AIDS in Pattaya.
Urasin Khantaraphan
Several international non-governmental organizations are expanding
efforts to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS among intravenous drug
users and “women-of-the-second-category” into Pattaya.
Na-anya Jantrakas from the Disease Prevention and Control Department at
the Pattaya Public Health Department met with representatives from the
PSI Thailand Foundation to discuss implementing its CAP 3D project in
Pattaya after launching previously in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.
PSI is a unit of U.S.-based Populations Services International, which
has partnered with the AIDS Project Management Group and the American
government’s Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS for the CAP 3D project.
Spanning several Southeast Asian countries, CAP 3D aims to reduce
morbidity and mortality related to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. The
project receives partial funding from the U.S. Agency for International
Development.
PSI Thailand is working to increase access to health services for IV
drug users in 15 provinces. For Pattaya, organizers discussed education
of volunteers and aggressive activities campaigning for safe sex amongst
“women-of-the-second-category”, specifically increased use of condoms.
The meeting was to brainstorm a working system amongst social
organizations and public sectors to provide advice and screening of HIV
and integrate prevention and care for target groups.
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