PUBLISHED : 4 Dec 2023 at 04:49
Teenagers are at risk of being infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) due to the widespread prevalence of unprotected sex, says the Aids Health Care Foundation (AHF) Thailand.
Kritsiam Arayawongchai, AHF Thailand Country Programme Director, said AHF Thailand worked with 25 healthcare centres to collect HIV blood tests from 73,081 people aged 15-50+ years old from Jan 1 to Oct 31.
The results showed that 152 or 2.9% of the 5,116 teenagers aged 15-19 years surveyed are new HIV patients.
Those in the 20-24 demographic are also considered at higher risk. Among 15,646 people surveyed in this age bracket, 387, or 2.4%, had HIV.
Mr Kritsiam was speaking at a recent forum, “To Love is Not Wrong, But…
