| the race to beat aids on the lao-thai border. | hundreds of thousands of tourists, traders, businessmen, truckers, migrant workers, and transient tribal minorities cross from thailand into the lao people's democratic republic (pdr) each day. unlike thailand, lao has low rates of hiv infection. the significant cross-border flow of population, however, demands that lao and its population take caution to avoid contracting and spreading hiv. lao's boat race festival is an event during which people are expected to lose their inhibitions. the b ... | 1997 | 12321029 |