Dr. Satit added that For today’s meeting, there were 2 matters considered and agreed upon:
1. Provide HIV Self-Test as a tool to promote people to know the status of HIV infection as soon as possible. to enter a preventive system such as PrEP, a pre-exposure prophylactic drug for HIV and antiviral treatment by providing all citizens with voluntary access to HIV screening test by themselves, confidential, convenient, fast, free of cost Or you can buy it yourself at a reasonable price. by allowing all sectors to adopt social marketing strategies or other ways to reduce the price of the test kit and promote broad and rapid access Currently, Thailand has two types of registered test kits, namely fingertip blood testing. The results are known within 1 minute and the use of oral fluids, the results can be read in 20 minutes, but there are still restrictions on distribution at pharmacies that do not cover the whole country.