1.   It is an underdeveloped, poorly educated country with a thriving sex industry fueled by poverty.

2.   A major factor in the spread of the disease in Thailand has been a thriving sex industry and social attitudes that condone male patronage of prostitutes.

3.   But the disease is spreading because of increased personal mobility, a growing drug trade and a thriving sex industry.

4.   HIV has been spread in China mostly by intravenous drug use and the thriving sex industry.

5.   Needle sharing among intravenous drug users and the thriving sex trade were blamed for most new cases, the newspaper said.

6.   The latest prevention strategy to be tried by the Health Ministry is a program that has been successful in neighboring Thailand, which also has a thriving sex industry.

7.   Countries with thriving commercial sex industries and those with apathetic governments would feel the brunt of the AIDS epidemic, he said.