The Global AIDS Program has placed four CDC staff in Thailand to assist with HIV prevention and care. They join four other international research staff and more than 70 Thai technical and support staff. The Collaboration maintains an office and laboratory at the MOPH in Nonthaburi and a field station in Chiang Rai, the country's northernmost province. The Collaboration is actively involved in helping the Thai MOPH translate the results of the successful clinical trial of short-course AZT into a national program. CDC is working with the MOPH on strategies for monitoring the implementation and impact of perinatal HIV prevention interventions.
Planning is also underway to explore new methods for expanded behavioral surveillance.
In 1997, an estimated 800,000 Thais were HIV-positive, over 30,000 had developed AIDS and 10,000 children were orphaned by the disease. Decrease HIV transmission among IDUs and their partners. Sustain efforts to encourage condom use during commercial sex and expand condom use in noncommercial settings. Telephone Mobile Telephone Fax Email Thailand Jordan Tappero, MD, MPH Dir.