The Lahu Health & Development Project (LHDP) is a program operating under the Thai-Lahu Foundation which is located in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
LHDP is operating since 1994 and its main aim is to provide Lahu people in need with help regarding health issues (including HIV and drugs), legal rights, environment, promote community understanding and many more.
The target group are people of the Lahu ethnicity who live in the mountains of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces in Northern Thailand.
One of our staff was invited to participate in the seminar organised by the Open Medical Institute & Open Society Institute. The one-week seminar was joined by 40 participants from 13 countries. It gave everybody a great opportunity not only to gain further knowledge in the area of anti-retroviral treatment for injecting drug users (IDU) with HIV, tuberculosis treatment and substitution therapy, but also to share knowledge and experiences related to different situation in each country. All lecturers have a great amount of knowledge and experiences and did care to see that changes are happening in our countries. They advised, recommended and helped with the development of ideas to pursue in different settings and follow-up how things develop regarding medical care and policy changes.Our foundation and the community members will benefit very much from the knowledge sharing and new understanding of various problems still present in Thailand.Once again a big thank you to the organisers and lecturers of the seminar!
