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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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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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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I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.
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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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It's clear that AIDS has returned to rise again .... We've gone back to days of ignorance, ... There's no reason why next year it won't be 100,000 new cases.
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It's clear that AIDS has returned to rise again ... . We've gone back to days of ignorance, ... There's no reason why next year it won't be 100,000 new cases.
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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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When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.
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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.
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As far as my part of the world is concerned there's not even a tree,
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Definitely if the Thai government doesn't need aid, civil society and the people do need it.
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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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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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I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.