PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 13 A participatory approach to promoting AIDS awareness in Thailand

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 13 A participatory approach to promoting AIDS awareness in Thailand Dusit Duangsa Introduction concepts and principles. Some of the concepts and principles we have found to be critical in An educational war on AIDS has been declared. addressing the AIDS issue are as follows: Sort of. Newspapers, radio stations, and television channels have been bombarding the · ? public daily with frequent slogans and can be solved through medical measures statements on AIDS. It is difficult not to be complete with medical facts and figures. subjected to such ubiquitous slogans as "AIDS Rather, it is a social problem that needs to is incurable; once you have AIDS, you?re be tackled with a good understanding of its bound to die" and "AIDS can be transmitted in socio-cultural dimensions and 3 ways: through sexual contacts, sharing implications. needles, and from mother to baby". People from all walks of life, including schoolchildren and · ? rural folks, can recite these slogans, correctly problem. The important thing is that, in and proudly. As in the case of parrots, however, our local community, there are now people the head is not really registering what the mouth who are infected ...