6m condoms to be handed out in Valentine’s Day HIV drive

[webfact]

6m condoms to be handed out in Valentine’s Day HIV drive
By Tanatpong Kongsai
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE BANGKOK Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to distribute 6 million condoms through its 68 public-health service centres and hospitals this year, as it was predicted the city would have 2,201 new HIV cases – 55 per cent of which would affect people under the age of 25.

 

BMA deputy governor Thaweesak Lertprapan yesterday said the BMA estimated it would have 77,555 people living with HIV – the virus which causes Aids – this year, of whom 59,118 were aware of being HIV-positive. Among this group, 48,269 were already on anti-viral medicine.

 

Last year, there were 63,471 people living with HIV in Bangkok, of whom 33,605 were aware of the condition.

 

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[kotsak]

6m!!!! That's a huge pole.. 

[tom21]

that's what I thought when I read the heading.

[taichiplanet]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

6m condoms

reading that headline i also started to suffer from penis envy

[Ahab]

Your minds are all in the gutter. However, you will have a bunch of company there because I also thought the headline was referring to a 6 meter long condom. Holy cow!

[Colabamumbai]

Will they be new condoms?

[phantomfiddler]

23 minutes ago, Colabamumbai said:

Will they be new condoms?

It disnae matter if you,re Scottish :)

[canuckamuck]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

6m condoms to be handed out in Valentine’s Day HIV drive

Obviously a propaganda exercise to intimidate the westerners and Africans.

[kotsak]

Mandingo weeps..

[Lupatria]

It gives the saying: let's burn some rubber, a new meaning.

[soalbundy]

condoms are useless, they always bend in the middle

[mercman24]

no good for Farang, Thai size tooo small, that why Thai lady like farang,lol !!

[hotchilli]

Last year, there were 63,471 people living with HIV in Bangkok, of whom 33,605 were aware of the condition.

 

Am I missing something here??
Does that mean 29,866 are living with HIV but are not aware of it, so how does the BMA come up with this statistic if the people themselves don't know they have it??

 

Also

6 million condoms to be handed out, have Guinness book of records been notified yet... could be a new world record for the largest f-fest ever?

[elgordo38]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK: -- THE BANGKOK Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to distribute 6 million condoms through its 68 public-health service centres and hospitals this year, as it was predicted the city would have 2,201 new HIV cases – 55 per cent of which would affect people under the age of 25.

 

Now top that up with better sex education in the schools and we are like a race horse out of the gate and running. 

[SaintLouisBlues]

10 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

Now top that up with better sex education in the schools and we are like a race horse out of the gate and running. 

Some friends and I are willing at great personal sacrifice to provide some hands-on mentoring

[Retiredandhappyhere]

I wonder how many of these 6 million condoms will be handed out FREE as proposed and how many will eventually end up being SOLD?  Yet another opportunity ? 

[bangon04]

The handout of 6 million condoms will be accompanied by the annual BS from the government telling young people not to have sex anyway....