Mechai Viravaidya
Mechai Viravaidya
Mechai Viravaidyais a former politician and activist in Thailand who promoted condoms, family planning and AIDS awareness in Thailand. Since the 1970s, Mechai has been affectionately known as "Mr. Condom", and condoms are often referred as "mechais" in Thailand. From the time that he began his work, the average number of children in Thai families has decreased from 7 to 1.5...
NationalityThai
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth17 January 1941
CountryThailand
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This proves very clearly that despite the efforts and good wishes of the Thai government in putting its own resources into tsunami relief, Thailand does need a lot of foreign assistance,
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I thought at the time that the prime minister had confused his country with his own family,
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With the demise and disappearance of public education, people think it's gone. I've had some kids say to me, 'Is AIDS still around?'
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The government budget, the lack of the declaration, the prime minister's abdication from the role, and the consequent weak public education program has resulted in what we have today: a tremendous increase,
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We think it's underestimated. We don't want to be nasty and call it a lie, but I think it's pretty close to it,
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We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.
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Well I think its more important for them to make more Catholics than to prevent AIDS right now. I hope that at some point that position shifts.