Free Muhammad the Bear !

Time to unite against all kind of zealots! Share your bears!

Condoms under tight security measures

In order to ensure that nobody dare buying them, a well-known UK supermarket locked condoms in a 20x20x10 cm perspex box on a top shelf. Abstinence or shame ? You choose!

What Can The MSM Community Do To Stop The Spread Of HIV?

HIV/AIDS is hitting Asia in a big way, and MSM are now bearing the brunt of it. Dr Tan Chong Kee urges all MSM to ask ourselves what we can do to stop the spread of HIV among the community.

HIV Prevalence Among Populations of Men Who Have Sex with Men - Thailand, 200...

In Bangkok, the overall HIV prevalence among MSM increased from 17.3% in 2003 to 28.3% in 2005. This survey is however limited to MSM recruited in specific areas of Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket. Overall figures...

Peripheries » French Fries and Fat Kids. Asia’s next epidemics: Obesity

A popular belief about obesity is that it affects only western or developped societies where food is available aplenty. It is the curse of the rich and the poor of the developed world epitomized by hulking...

Peripheries » The indecent driving force of globalisation

Phnom Penh, May 2006. Standing at the intersection of Moniwong Boulevard and Charles de Gaulle I watch the traffic, oblivious of where I am. In the hot and sticky weather of this month of May I only want to cool...

US-Thai Free Trade Agreement: Unhealthy deal for Public Health

"The well being and life of 600.000 Thais living with HIV, including 200,000 women and 12,000 children, depends on readily available and affordable antiretroviral therapies. Currently, only 80.000 people have...

Thai Military scraps offending label against gays

"The military has scrapped its 52-year-old practice of describing transvestites undergoing the annual military conscription as having a ''mental disorder''. The offending label, used since the...

Blogging in the Void

It is indisputable, blogging is one of the revolutions born out of the development of the Internet that has successfully open new windows into the world. Isolated people, people with ideas and experiences to...