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So if a town has 1 person infected and another person gets infected thats a 100% infection rise.. Thats uising statistics to the point of ubsurdity..

Thailand has actually had a slowdown of infection rates since the times of the mid to late 90's..

There is concern that this may again be on the rise but the fastest growing infection rate in the world.. OK show me the data ??

To emphasize my point with data

Rayong is a province in the eastern region of Thailand with the highest number of AIDS patients and people having HIV, and ranks the third of the country. Rayong records a dead toll of 1,047 and 3,997 AIDS patients from September 1984 to November 1999. It records the ratio of 70.68 AIDS patients per a hundred thousand people in 1999, while the highest is in 1996 at 155.67, the lowest in 1999, and in the previous year the figure is well over 139.36.

The Ministry of Public Health estimated that 984,000 people all across the country have infected HIV since the first AIDS patient was found. Among them, 289,000 died and 695,000 are currently living with HIV and AIDS. Among the infected, 55,000 will develop serious AIDS related complex this year, requiring medical care. Approximately the same number will die of AIDS. It is also estimated that 29,000 new infections would occur this year. Half of these are women who got the virus from their husbands or sex partners. A quarter would be infected from drug use, one fifth among sex workers and their clients, and 4,000 are children. This fact highlights the country three important areas, prevention of infection, reduction of HIV transmission from mother to child and care of AIDS patients....

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Background and Rationale

AIDS in Thailand has spread through different risk groups during an initial period. From 1984 to November 30, 1999 , the accrued number of AIDS patients in full-blown is 131,396, and 36,312 people died of AIDS.

The largest group of people with HIV are those aged 25-29 years. The largest group by profession infected with the virus is young employees and factory workers. The main risk factor in the same period is sexual relationships. The region with the highest rate of infection is the North.