HIV Prevention and Health Promotion

Selected publications & papers

The State of the Worlds Minorities 2007 report looks at the key developments over 2006 affecting human rights and security of ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples.

"Movie Entertains, Educates Mekong Youngsters About Human Trafficking", International Organization for Migration (IOM), Bangkok, 2007. This article describes the animated video “Shattered Dreams”, developed by IOM in nine languages to accurately reflect the experiences of young people and the issues they face, while promoting messages about safe migration.

“GIS Disease Surveillance System in the Mekong region”, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 2006. The publication can be downloaded from the Rockmekong 2006 publication webpage

“Migrating in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Resource Book”, Migration Network: Asian Migrant Center, Hong Kong. An in-depth study on the "quality of life" of migrants and the overall situation of migrants including updates on migration related policies in the GMS. The publication can be downloaded from the Rockmekong 2005 publication webpage.

“Promoting standards for socio-cultural research on the issues of HIV/AIDS and trafficking” - issues and recommendations identified during the UNESCO regional seminar (Bangkok, 19-21 November 2005)

“Review of the socio-cultural research on HIV/AIDS in the Greater Mekong Subregion” -background paper for the UNESCO regional seminar (Bangkok, 19-21 November 2005)

“Demographic and Developmental Contexts of AIDS in Northern Thailand”, prepared by Professor Huw Jones for the CICRED and UNDP SEAHIV Workshop on Inter-relations between Development, Spatial Mobility and HIV/AIDS, Paris, 1-3 September 2004.

“No status: migration, trafficking & exploitation of women in Thailand - health and HIV/AIDS risks for Burmese and hill tribe women and girls”, Physicians for Human Rights, Boston, MA, June 2004.

HIV/AIDS in the GMS: Bulletin for Prevention Education in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Issue 1, 2004. This bulletin was produced under the 2004-2005 ADB-UNESCO-SEAMEO project "ICT and Preventive Education in the Cross-border Areas of the Greater Mekong Sub-region". It has been reprinted in 2006 and 2007.

“Public health status of border communities in the Mekong basin”, background paper, Center for Research on the Epidimiology of Disasters (CRED), December 2003.

“Multiple realities at the Golden Triangle”, Djedje R.S. and R. Korff, paper presented at the EIDOS conference on “Order and Disjuncture in Development” at the SOAS, September 2003

“Drug Use, Increasing Incarceration Rates, and Prison-Associated HIV Risks in Thailand” in AIDS and Behavior, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2003. Ethnic minority individuals from the Hmong, Karen, Akha, Shan and other groups made up 45% of the study population.

“Ensuring the rights if indigenous children”, UNICEF 2003. This publication prepared by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre includes a focus on ethnic minority children in the GMS.