World AIDS Day in Bangkok

In case you missed it, here are some nice photos of the World AIDS Day Celebration in Bangkok, December 1, 2006.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/saranyu_ld ... 399995023/

Bangkok marked World AIDS Day with an event in Lumpini Park which featured a Condom Fashion Show and a symbolic record setting event for the World's Longest Condom chain, a ribbon of 25,000 condoms:

"Thailand has long been considered a model in the fight against AIDS and has made great gains in reducing the number of new infections through strongly promoting condom use among prostitutes in Thailand's rampant sex industry. But officials warn that the epidemic has started to shift, with HIV cases rising among male homosexuals, young people having casual sex, injecting drug users, and monogamous housewives whose husbands bring the disease home. The agency UNAIDS estimates some 570,000 people are living with the virus in Thailand, about a third of them women."

Photos are from a flickr photodiary on the event by Bangkok Diary.
http://upload4.postimage.org/1804941/bangkok1.jpg

The latest in condom fashions...

P.S.--The theme of this year's World AIDS Day: "Keep the Promise"

What a magnificent collection of photographs. I had no idea that so may would dress in condoms even one I recognize. Thanks for showing them.