Disseminating information about prevention is not easy. According to the Western Pacific regional office of the World Health Organization, educational activities in Asia are conducted at many levels. Mass media campaigns, such as billboards and television advertisements promoting safe sex, inform the general public. AIDS education is also becoming increasingly common in school curricula. And traveling theater groups and puppet shows target children or isolated villagers whom mass media fail to reach.
Education does work.
Thailand is a lesson to everybody. Nonetheless, Thailand still faces a formidable problem. The country, with its 750,000 HIV carriers, has Asia's second-largest infected population. Their clients have gone on to infect wives and girlfriends. Thailand confronts another threat.