information about people with HIV

[angelino59]

i would like to have information, please:

if not thai people, with visa tourist get a HIv deseas can go in Thailand?

a lot of friend tell me if police discoved you get HIv you are expelled from thai and it i simpossible to come back in Thailand, it is true?

farang people can buy antireteovral medicine in Thailand?

many thanks for support me

Angelino59

[thepool]

Not quite sure what is being asked.

Any one who qualifies can have tourist visa. Being HIV + not an issue and the question would never be asked.

No one is "expelled" from Thailand because of their HIV status.

Anti-retroviral medication is strictly controlled in Thailand and can only be "bought" if prescribed and then only from a hospital.

It would seem your friends are very badly informed .

Bad and inaccurate information helps no one.

Edited April 5, 2014 by thepool

[angelino59]

Not quite sure what is being asked.

Any one who qualifies can have tourist visa. Being HIV + not an issue and the question would never be asked.

No one is "expelled" from Thailand because of their HIV status.

Anti-retroviral medication is strictly controlled in Thailand and can only be "bought" if prescribed and then only from a hospital.

It would seem your friends are very badly informed .

Bad and inaccurate information helps no one.

thanks very much thepool,

Living a lot of time in Pattaya and Chiang mai I've always wondered if foreigners who have HIV can live in Thailand, my friends, probably not well informed, they told me that a tourist with HIV, if discovery is ejected, and the name is reported to competent authorities, so the person will never more come into thailand. for example, a tourist who goes on vacation in Tahilandia with HIV could not liveand stay there. Now I seem to have figured out that this is not true.

I seem to have figured out that a foreigner with HIV+ can buy anti retro viral therapy in hospitals ... I understand you correctly?

[thepool]

Medication can only be "bought" if prescribed by a Thai hospital doctor.

[Sheryl]

As above. There is no law which would cause an HIV person to be either deported or denied entry to Thailand, and there are many HIV+ foreigners living here long term -- as well as, of course, a much larger number of HIV+ Thais.

A foreigner can be treated for HIV here and there are some excellent HIV specialists especially in Bangkok. The antiretroviral medications must be prescribed by a doctor.

See this thread for names and addresses of doctors and lcinics specializing in HIV http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/285198-hiv-testing-and-treatment-in-los-doctors-meds-costs/

[angelino59]

As above. There is no law which would cause an HIV person to be either deported or denied entry to Thailand, and there are many HIV+ foreigners living here long term -- as well as, of course, a much larger number of HIV+ Thais.

A foreigner can be treated for HIV here and there are some excellent HIV specialists especially in Bangkok. The antiretroviral medications must be prescribed by a doctor.

See this thread for names and addresses of doctors and lcinics specializing in HIV http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/285198-hiv-testing-and-treatment-in-los-doctors-meds-costs/

thanks very much for your help and information Sheryl, very kind!!!