Comments on: HIV Prevention: Real Woman Waits http://www.peripheries.org/2008/11/06/hiv-prevention-real-women-waits/ Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:39:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: peripheries » Blog Archive » VCT without Treatment in Singapore http://www.peripheries.org/2008/11/06/hiv-prevention-real-women-waits/comment-page-1/#comment-108 peripheries » Blog Archive » VCT without Treatment in Singapore Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:10:47 +0000 http://www.peripheries.org/?p=583#comment-108 [...] previously observed, we should not pit “Western Truth against Native Error”; but that should not stop us pitting native truth against [...] [...] previously observed, we should not pit “Western Truth against Native Error”; but that should not stop us pitting native truth against [...]

]]> By: Roger http://www.peripheries.org/2008/11/06/hiv-prevention-real-women-waits/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Roger Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:07:58 +0000 http://www.peripheries.org/?p=583#comment-107 To be fair, there have been and there are some prevention interventions in Thailand. In Bangkok FHI spend $200,000 in 2006 on a campaign that I thought was not appropriate, but that’s was my judgement purely based on evidence, i.e. discussion with the targets but that would be evidenced-based and therefore irrelevant. Whilst I was living there (for about 18 months) I think I remember seeing…. let me count… 2 or maybe 3 of these interventions, organised in the Silom area where sex workers and money boy targeting foreigners can be found. Condoms are regularly distributed in the Lumpini Park, a cruising area, after recipients have been patronised with the ABC. I don’t think this is really happening, the partonising, but it should in theory as the money comes from USAID… Ask your friends… I probably can find the article where Jeannine Bardon of FHI said something along the line abstinence sounds severe but it is an option that works. I could tell you more but it would upset me… To be fair, there have been and there are some prevention interventions in Thailand. In Bangkok FHI spend $200,000 in 2006 on a campaign that I thought was not appropriate, but that’s was my judgement purely based on evidence, i.e. discussion with the targets but that would be evidenced-based and therefore irrelevant.

Whilst I was living there (for about 18 months) I think I remember seeing…. let me count… 2 or maybe 3 of these interventions, organised in the Silom area where sex workers and money boy targeting foreigners can be found.

Condoms are regularly distributed in the Lumpini Park, a cruising area, after recipients have been patronised with the ABC. I don’t think this is really happening, the partonising, but it should in theory as the money comes from USAID… Ask your friends… I probably can find the article where Jeannine Bardon of FHI said something along the line abstinence sounds severe but it is an option that works.

I could tell you more but it would upset me…

]]> By: Elizabeth Pisani http://www.peripheries.org/2008/11/06/hiv-prevention-real-women-waits/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Elizabeth Pisani Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:26:07 +0000 http://www.peripheries.org/?p=583#comment-105 "Would one be vindicated asking why with such prevalence being known since 2003, prevention interventions have failed to decrease incidence amongst MSM?" I'd start with a different question: have there BEEN any prevention interventions of any sizeable scale? There is a bit going on these days in Bangkok, but I'd love to see the intervention coverage figures for the city, as well as other cities. Prevention interventions don't work if they don't exist or only reach a tiny fraction of those most at risk. “Would one be vindicated asking why with such prevalence being known since 2003, prevention interventions have failed to decrease incidence amongst MSM?”

I’d start with a different question: have there BEEN any prevention interventions of any sizeable scale? There is a bit going on these days in Bangkok, but I’d love to see the intervention coverage figures for the city, as well as other cities. Prevention interventions don’t work if they don’t exist or only reach a tiny fraction of those most at risk.

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