PRESS RELEASE
SAFE SEX ONLY IN PHUKET PLEASE
Working with the businesses in Soi Paradise in Patong, the Phuket Loves You Club has produced T-shirts with safe sex messages printed on them. All the T-shirts have the same message printed on the back of them ‘Safe sex only in Phuket please’ and three different messages on the fronts of them:
I have been tested have you?
Know your status, Get tested
A condom is for life not just for Christmas
All the bar staff and staff working outside the establishments in the Soi will be wearing these T-shirts every Friday evening, which it is hoped will give a powerful impact message to all the visitors to the Soi each week, that everyone in Paradise and Phuket in general are 100% committed to promoting safe sex and getting new HIV/AIDS infections in Phuket to zero.
The have also placed large bowls of free condoms in all the bars, these bowls also carry the ‘Safe sex only in Phuket’ message. The condoms are being supplied via the Life home Project in Phuket. (One of the supported Charities)
The holds fund raising events during the year the biggest of which is Phuket Pride week, which this year is being held on 20th to 27th April and their web site: www.phuket-pride.org has details of the full weeks events.
They have a target to raise 1 Million Baht for their chosen Charities, which are the Life Home project, where they sponsor the education of Children living with HIV or who have parents with HIV, thus giving these children a better future, helping them to break the cycle of poverty or stigmatization in which they are trapped. Their other Charity is called ‘Community Project’ where they work with groups like the Sabaidee Clinic where local people can go for free HIV & STD testing, receive safe sex advise and free condoms, The ‘Safe sex only in Phuket’ T-shirt campaign is a part of this project.
Ian Philips the Chairman said “ the enthusiasm and commitment of the bar owners and all the staff towards wearing the T-shirts really demonstrates real commitment to promoting safe sex and getting new HIV/AIDS infections in Phuket to zero”.
February 2014
