sexually transmitted infection rates are similar to those among asia thailand has a million cases of h i v i think that we ve been lucky in the sense that we ve been insulated from this epidemic but when this news train came in we pretty much our luck would run out and it really spread like wildfire and this ass strain like i said it s not new it s from and southeast asia but it s really supplanted our old strain which was less aggressive so we re seeing this new strain becoming the dominant strain in the philippines that s already well established in other countries in the region doesn t have the potential to spread globally. it already is spreading globally this strain which is which is a recombinant form of a chinese be called c r f a e we re starting to see this encroach into canada australia and the united states in some parts of the word where it was mostly be