AFRIMS Thai Component

The Thai component of AFRIMS is a subordinate command within the Royal Thai Army Medical Department (RTAMD). The Director General, the organization’s senior military officer, heads the collaboration. Within the Thai context, AFRIMS responds to the directed research needs of the RTAMD, which, among other things, includes the collaborative activities with our US counterparts focusing on infectious diseases of military and public health importance. We also respond to the research needs of the RTAMD in areas such as military occupational health, environmental health, preventive medicine and health promotion. Beyond our in-house research activities, we participate in collaborative research with domestic and international partners. We are proud of the progress and the contributions that we have made throughout our successful history as a research institute.

Surveillance of rodent reservoirs for Rickettsiae and Leptospira in Military Area of Operation (AO) along Thai borders.

A non-commissioned officer having a blood pressure check in the health promotion program for personnel in Bangkok and its perimeter.

The Thai component of AFRIMS is organized into three divisions: Administrative, Research and Analysis. The Administrative Division is responsible for logistics, correspondence, personnel, budgeting/ finance and transportation. The Division of Research conducts clinical, epidemiological and laboratory studies stressing infectious threats of military importance including HIV/AIDS, malaria, scrub typhus, diarrheal diseases, and sexual transmitted diseases. The Division of Analysis primarily monitors health issues other than infectious diseases that could adversely affect military operations. This division is also tasked with providing laboratory services and laboratory animals to support biomedical research.

For more information, please visit AFRIMS Thai Component site at www.AFRIMS.go.th

	The Signing Ceremony of “Statement of Partnership & Commitment between UNAIDS and Ministry of Defense” and the launching of “UNAIDS Best Practice Report: The Royal Thai Army Experience at the 15th International AIDS Conference 2004, Bangkok.