Thailand Condom Ad
HIV Prevention through Thailand’s Condom Ad
Ini this paper I want to This condom ad is from Thailand and show a man coming to a store and whisper to the casher to buy condom because he’s embarrassed to buy it. Then he look around anxiously and everyone are judging him for buying a condom. But then he realize it’s only on his mind and people are not really care about him buying condom. And at the end of the advertising is the campaign words about not to be ashamed to buy condom because you’re being responsible.
Thailand is facing the new crisis of HIV/AIDS infection and have been raising awareness about it from 1990s. Unsafe sex is being blamed for the alarming rise of HIV infections among young people. At least one person becomes HIV-positive every hour in Thailand, joining more than a million Thais who have been infected since the first case was reported here in 1984. In 1990 Thailand had 100.000 new cases of HIV infection. Just three years later the number of cases had jumped to around one million. It’s because young boys and girls from 12 years old are having sex without protection. Also, even though prostitution is illegal in Thailand, but the practice can be seen there and 97% of the HIV cases were related to sex workers.
To rising awareness about it, campaigns to wear condom for preventing HIV/AIDS and having safe sex are done everywhere. Mechai Viravaidya a former politician that have been campaigning about AIDS awareness from 20 years ago, held a big campaign in Thailand. He gives free condom at his restaurant, Cabbages and Condom and also in World Aids Day was marked on the streets of Pattaya earlier this month with a parade of bands, vintage cars and sex workers, some of them transgender people or ''lady boys'', several wearing little more than body paint and holding signs such as ''getting to zero'' and ''free condoms and lubricants''. There were condom-blowing contests, police handing out condoms in traffic, taxi drivers playing cassettes urging
Ini this paper I want to This condom ad is from Thailand and show a man coming to a store and whisper to the casher to buy condom because he’s embarrassed to buy it. Then he look around anxiously and everyone are judging him for buying a condom. But then he realize it’s only on his mind and people are not really care about him buying condom. And at the end of the advertising is the campaign words about not to be ashamed to buy condom because you’re being responsible.
Thailand is facing the new crisis of HIV/AIDS infection and have been raising awareness about it from 1990s. Unsafe sex is being blamed for the alarming rise of HIV infections among young people. At least one person becomes HIV-positive every hour in Thailand, joining more than a million Thais who have been infected since the first case was reported here in 1984. In 1990 Thailand had 100.000 new cases of HIV infection. Just three years later the number of cases had jumped to around one million. It’s because young boys and girls from 12 years old are having sex without protection. Also, even though prostitution is illegal in Thailand, but the practice can be seen there and 97% of the HIV cases were related to sex workers.
To rising awareness about it, campaigns to wear condom for preventing HIV/AIDS and having safe sex are done everywhere. Mechai Viravaidya a former politician that have been campaigning about AIDS awareness from 20 years ago, held a big campaign in Thailand. He gives free condom at his restaurant, Cabbages and Condom and also in World Aids Day was marked on the streets of Pattaya earlier this month with a parade of bands, vintage cars and sex workers, some of them transgender people or ''lady boys'', several wearing little more than body paint and holding signs such as ''getting to zero'' and ''free condoms and lubricants''. There were condom-blowing contests, police handing out condoms in traffic, taxi drivers playing cassettes urging