Economic and social HIV / AIDS prevention strategies for Northern Thai women : operations research

This project, funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), was a collaboration/cooperative effect between the Population and Community Development Association(PDA) and the program on AIDS , Thai Red Cross Society. The project areas are in Wiang Pa Pao District in Chiang Rai Province and Chiang Kham District in Phayao Province. The objective of the project was to prevent young women in the North of Thailand from entering commercial sex work. 111 order to evaluate the project, the study was done using questionnaires, focus group discussion and in-depth interview. The target groups of the study (those directly impacted by the project) were young women and young men in the villages, parents and community leaders. The project lasted from May 1992 to December 1995..