World AIDS Day 2021: Chiang Rai Regional Hospital CRS

• Thailand has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in Asia and the Pacific, accounting for 9% of the region’s total population of people living with HIV. Chiang Rai Province has the highest rate of people living with HIV from adults and children from mother-to-child transmission.

• Although the epidemic is in decline, prevalence remains high among key affected groups, with young people from key populations particularly at risk.

• Thailand is the first country to effectively eliminate mother-to-child transmissions, with a transmission rate of less than 2%.

• In 2018, Thailand began to scale up PrEP in order to make it nationally available to people at high risk of HIV, making it a leader in the region.

• In Chiang Rai, we started (distributing) PrEP in 2020.

• Thailand hopes to be one of the first countries to end AIDS by 2030. However, to achieve this, significantly more young people and key affected populations need to be reached.

• The motto of Chiang Rai 's World AIDS Day was “Empowering & Collaborating for Ending Aids in 2030.

The pictures show the activities from Chiang Rai's CAB.