Friday, April 11, 2008

Cabbages, Condoms and HIV in Thailand

“Sorry, we have no mints,” reads the sign at Cabbages & Condoms Restaurant in Bangkok. “Please take a condom.” The restaurant is owned by Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association, a nonprofit founded in the ’70s to promote family planning. But when HIV came to Thailand, the group’s leader, Mechai Viravaida, took to the nation’s [...]

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