About the BUPA Sarnelli House project

Sarnelli House orphanage

Sadly, most of the children at Sarnelli House orphanage were left without a family after their parents fell victim to AIDS. The impact of AIDS in Thailand is staggering. Although Africa has the largest number of people living with the disease, alarming figures show that it is growing the fastest in the south and south-east regions of Asia.

With a strong presence in Thailand with its BUPA Thailand business, BUPA decided to take action to help tackle this issue and raise awareness of the problem. It hopes to create a sustainable relationship with the orphanage and to encourage further international charitable activity in the future.

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Background to AIDS in Thailand

Today, over 700,000 Thais live with HIV or AIDS - approximately two percent of adult men and 1.5 percent of adult women. Each year until at least 2006, 30-50,000 Thais will die from AIDS-related causes. Ninety percent of them will be aged 20-24, the most productive sector of the workforce.

Unfortunately, the majority of adults who have died from AIDS have left a child behind and they often too become a victim of the terrible disease. Without organisations such as Sarnelli House thousands of these innocent children would have a very bleak and short future.