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Calls to improve treatment and access for people living with HIV
News, Published on 06/07/2025
» The Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (TNP+) has called on Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsuthin to improve the universal coverage scheme, otherwise known as the gold card scheme, to ensure broader access to healthcare for people with HIV/Aids.
Thailand earns praise for HIV action
News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 24/07/2024
» UNAIDS Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Winnie Byanyima has praised Thailand's success in promoting community sustainability in its Aids response, encouraging other countries to learn this model from Thailand.
Govt may boost access to HIV drugs
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 10/03/2024
» The Public Health Ministry has accepted a proposal to look into easing medical access for HIV/Aids patients, according to minister Cholnan Srikaew.
Aids group calls for bug patent relax
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 06/05/2021
» Drug patents should be revoked so people can have equal access to medication while the world is facing the outbreak of Covid-19, the Aids Healthcare Foundation says.
A Valentine reminder that people with HIV deserve love
News, Published on 13/02/2021
» Six years ago, Pete learned that he was HIV positive, a point in his life when he struggled to understand what this meant and had almost given up on life. However, this is where his story begins. Pete managed to overcome the stigma and discrimination and decided to publicly disclose his HIV-positive status on social media and educate people about HIV from his experiences, becoming today an influential voice in Thailand.
HIV patients urge subsidies for dialysis
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/11/2020
» The National Health Security Office has been urged to provide more haemodialysis units to hospitals all across the country and subsidise the cost of kidney treatment for HIV/Aids patients.
Born this way
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 15/03/2019
» What is it like to be a transgender woman living in Asia?
Bad education?
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 11/02/2019
» Sex is rarely a topic we discuss freely in Thailand. Shunned in our conservative culture, sex -- as a topic of discussion -- is received with either embarrassment, shame or laughter, not to be taken seriously or with a straight face.
Hep C meds urged for HIV patients
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/07/2018
» Health networks have called on authorities to ensure patients with HIV/Aids have more access to medicine for the treatment of hepatitis C.
Welfare graft case expands to 5 offices
News, Published on 20/02/2018
» The Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) has found evidence to substantiate a suspected graft case at a welfare centre in Surat Thani that is believed to involve at least 6.9 million baht, said PACC commissioner Jarumporn Suramanee.