Health Affairs Interviews Thai HIV/AIDS Policy Leader Mechai Viravaidya
"From Family Planning To HIV/AIDS Prevention To Poverty Alleviation: A Conversation With Mechai Viravaidya," Health Affairs: The journal features an interview with Mechai Viravaidya, founder and chair of the Population and Community Development Association, a leading public health nongovernmental organization in Bangkok, Thailand. In the interview, Mechai discusses how he used the media and other channels in Thailand to launch nationwide programs focused on changing attitudes, beliefs and health behavior in controversial and challenging ways, such as sexual behavior in the context of population control and HIV/AIDS (Melnick, Health Affairs, 9/25).
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