Common factors in HIV/AIDS prevention success: lessons from Thailand.

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Background

Thailand has achieved global acclaim for its response to HIV/AIDS. However, the success of some of the country's most well-known initiatives was by no means a foregone conclusion. Policy entrepreneurs on the periphery of power had to achieve buy-in from stakeholders in state and society to scale and mainstream their ideas. This paper offers a comparative and historical understanding the process by which three of the country's most well-known initiatives came into being: a civil society campaign to promote condom usage; a Ministry of Public Health program that aimed to prevent the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) by targeting high-risk populations (the 100% condom program); and a universal Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT) program.

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SUBMITTER: Harris J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9727911 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature