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FHI's Laboratory in Bangkok Blessed by Buddhist Monks

MAY 2007 — FHI's Product Quality and Compliance (PQC) Lab in Bangkok celebrated its opening February 9 with a formal open house and a Buddhist blessing ceremony. The new lab adds muscle to FHI's long-standing mandate of testing male condoms to ensure that they meet all international standards to prevent the transmission of HIV and other diseases.

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Media Campaign Messages Hit Home for MSM

JANUARY 2007 — Last year FHI conducted a promotional campaign that reached an estimated 35,000 men who have sex with men. The campaign stressed consistent condom and water-based lubricant use, and regular HIV testing and sexually-transmitted infection check-ups. A review of the campaign found it reached a high proportion of MSM and that the health and HIV prevention messages hit home. 

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FHI and Partners Launch MSM Communications Campaign

FEBRUARY 2006 — FHI and several partners launched a communications campaign in Thailand to stem the growth in HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM). This pilot program is raising awareness, promoting safer sexual behavior and encouraging MSM to use health services for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections.

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MAP Network Releases 'AIDS in Asia' Assessment Report

APRIL 2004 — The Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic Network (MAP Network) released AIDS in Asia: Face the Facts: A Comprehensive Analysis of the AIDS Epidemics in Asia. The report looks at epidemic trends in selected countries—those where HIV is spreading rapidly, those where the number of new infections appears to be falling, and those where the epidemic has yet to take off. AIDS in Asia also examines the major behaviors driving the epidemic—injecting drug use, sex between men and commercial sex—and questions whether social norms of youth are changing.

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