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Safe sex awareness campaign gets a rise

The Public Health Ministry is to distribute 60 million free condoms to high-risk groups nationwide in a bid to promote safe sex awareness during the festival of love _ Valentine's Day.

Nimit: Says Aids prevention is vital

The condoms will be handed out on Valentine's Day, on Tuesday, to teenagers, young adults and commercial sex workers via ministry health care units across the country, Disease Control Department director-general Pornthep Siriwanarangsan said yesterday at the launch of the Valentine's Day safe sex campaign.

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    Discussion 1 : 10/02/2012 at 12:16 PM1

    An amazing story.

    "Due to a lack of political commitment to promote Aids prevention, commercial sex workers manage to get only 16 free condoms a year." Give me a break! Why would commercial sex workers require FREE condoms?!

    And "the study showed that only half of 1,014 respondents aged between 12 and 24 years admitted using condoms during sex." Admitted?????

    "...up to 89% of them did not carry condoms, which not only highlighted the risk of contracting sexual diseases such as Aids, but also unwanted pregnancies, he said." Nonsense. Not carrying condoms does not constitute a health risk. Unprotected intercourse does. Certainly by married men who, visiting certain entertainment venues under the influence, "don't care" about using a condom and subsequently infect their wife at home.

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