HIV Clinic on Silom Road Honored with Clinical Research Site Status

October 2011

A medical technologist processes a blood sample in the lab of the Silom Community Clinic for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in Bangkok. The CDC studies HIV among Bangkok's MSM population, which has a high rate of HIV infection.

Inside the Bangkok Christian Hospital on Silom Road, novel approaches to preventing HIV infection are being tested by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Silom Community Clinic, an HIV clinic for men who have sex with men, aims to be a model for the integration of HIV prevention research and services.

Recently the clinic qualified as a clinical research site of U.S. National Institutes of Health’s HIV Prevention Trials Network, an important U.S. Government research network that studies detection and prevention of the disease that causes AIDS. The new designation confirms the important work being done at the clinic to help move closer to an AIDS-free generation.