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Thailand readies for its close-up
Business, Dusida Worrachaddejchai, Published on 09/05/2022
» While the leisure tourism market continued to fluctuate the past four months, another segment stole the limelight based on consistent demand.
New STI medical centre opens
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/02/2022
» The Public Health Ministry has opened a new facility, Bang Rak Medical Centre Building, with the aim of providing one-stop sexual health services and becoming a full-service wellness centre.
Bangkok handing out free condoms ahead of Valentine's Day
Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 10/02/2022
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is handing out 2 million free condoms in a campaign for safe sex ahead of Valentine's Day, with sexually transmitted infections on the rise among the young.
More incentives for foreign film shoots
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 09/12/2021
» The government looks set to increase incentives and deregulate foreign film shoots in Thailand, aiming to promote shooting and production.
The American South: A weak link in the Covid vaccination campaign
AFP, Published on 05/07/2021
» BIRMINGHAM (UNITED STATES) - With a sizable Black minority traditionally mistrustful of vaccines and with many conservative rural whites convinced that the vaccine is more dangerous than Covid-19 itself, Southern US states like Alabama have some of the country's lowest vaccination rates, leaving the disadvantaged region vulnerable to dangerous new virus variants.
Mother-to-child HIV, syphilis decline
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/06/2021
» Thailand has been given an award by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Switzerland for its success in almost eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
When party and play goes wrong
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 05/04/2021
» Ten years ago, Pong* went to a party that would change the course of his life. Inside the dim-lit room were a group of five people who were drinking alcohol and taking drugs. When Pong got high on meth, he was caught off guard and ended up having condomless sex.
A dark past clouds Covid vaccine for African Americans
AFP, Published on 15/02/2021
» WASHINGTON: Gary Jackson doesn't want the Covid vaccine even though the virus kills Black people at a starkly higher rate -- a daunting problem experts say the United States must confront in controlling its disastrous outbreak.
It wasn't the sex: bloodletting fatal for Raphael, study claims
AFP, Published on 18/07/2020
» ROME - A feverish Raphael suffering from "a coronavirus-like disease" died after failing to tell his doctors he had been secretly visiting lovers on freezing cold nights, leading them to wrongly prescribe bloodletting, a new study claims.
Tracing a path to Big Brother?
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/05/2020
» As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc, governments are turning to contact tracing -- a tactic used to control outbreaks of syphilis in the 1930s and more recently Ebola in West Africa.