1988_56
Archive ID: 1988_56Dr Uthai Sudsukh, a leading thai policy maker on ministry of health and involved in the Thai national AIDS program, talks about the Thailand AIDS situation in 1988 and the current health policy.
Background material
"Thailand was very early to confront HIV/AIDS at a national level. HIV spread very fast in the mid and late eighties, and from the beginning the government tried to play down the growing problem. AIDS movement grew very rapidly in the country. Dr Uthai was an important person in the national health ministry who started to see the problems coming. But at the time when I did this interview there was no actual national plan to halt the spread of HIV or take care of the growing number of sick people." - Staffan Hildebrand