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Thailand’s government has stopped the country’s leading pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) services from operating, jeopardising an approach that has attracted international attention and is at the heart of Asia’s largest PrEP programme.

Around 80% of people using PrEP in Thailand receive it from a clinic led and staffed by members of the community that it serves. But under new rules, only government doctors can prescribe PrEP and community services cannot dispense it. Another rule change stops PrEP being issued to people excluded from the country’s main health insurance system.

Most of the services affected are ‘key-population led services’. Key populations are groups of people who are disproportionately affected by HIV – in Thailand, men who have sex with men, transgender women and sex workers. The clinics are run by community members and have meaningfully engaged the wider community to create services that respond to their needs.

The Ministry of Social and Human Development is seeking public feedback over one month. Unlike Miss Rotten Egg's case, this exercise was proceeding quietly without much media attention. Those who knew what was going on did not know what the ministry intended to do with the opinions gathered.

Hopefully, the ministry will get serious about rewriting this archaic law after failed attempts to do so two years ago.

In Thailand, paying for sex is not illegal if it is consensual. But under the law, sex workers can be arrested for approaching potential clients, advertising their services or working in brothels. However, clients are left alone.

Thai, Only Fans star and her boy friend were arrested for producing erotic vides on the channel.  The produced sexually explicit content on the OnlyFans social media platform. Their arrest has sparked a wave of fear and resentment among other creators.  It is time the Thai government revisted existing laws on pornographic content.

"It is time the state admits that sex is natural act. As long as sex is performed within private spaces, it is not wrong."

"As long as sexually-explicit murals still exist on temple walls, the state cannot claim this crackdown was meant to uphold peace and morality," he concluded.

Sex workers in Thailand have launched a petition calling for prostitution to be decriminalised and urging authorities to remove all penalties for selling and buying sex.

“The law punishes sex workers - 80% of whom are mothers and the main breadwinner for the whole family,” said Mai Junta, a representative from Empower.

More than 24,000 people were arrested, prosecuted and fined for sex work-related offences in Thailand last year, according to the Royal Thai Police.

Surang Janyam, director of the Service Workers in Group, a Thailand-based support organisation for sex workers, said the prostitution law should be repealed to allow sex workers to be protected under labour laws.

A Bangkok brothel has brought in thermal scanners to test its customers for coronavirus.

Patrons of the sprawling seven-storey 'entertainment venue' are given scans to detect fevers, one of the symptoms of the bug which has infected more than 140 people in the country.