From Experience to Impact: Community-Driven Interventions

The Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM) 2025

2-4 December 2025, Eastin grand hotel phayathai, Bangkok, Thailand

Date: 3 December 2025

Session Description: This session will show how community groups in Thailand turn real life

experiences into action that improves health and well-being. The speakers will share how they

support people facing HIV, stigma, and inequality, and how their work creates safe spaces,

builds trust, and protects rights.

The session will include three community organizations: Health and Share Foundation (HSF),

ACTTEAM, and HugM House. Their work covers different areas—helping vulnerable families

and older people, providing HIV prevention and harm-reduction services, and creating safe

spaces for young MSM in the Northeast.

Organizer: Mahidol center for health, behavior and society (MUHBS)

Chairpersons:

• Professor Dr. Pimpawun Boonmongkon – Researcher on gender, sexuality, HIV/AIDS,

and social justice.

• Associate Professor Dr. Suchada Thaweesit – Institute for Population and Social

Research and anthropologist working on gender, health, and community rights.

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thomas E. Guadamuz – Mahidol center for health, behavior and

society (MUHBS), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University

Speakers:

• “From Borderlands to Better Health: SHARE’s Experience with Children and

Families” By Ladda Waiyawan, Deputy Manager – Health and Share Foundation (HSF),

Ubon Ratchathani• “Building Health and Dignity: ACTTEAM’s Community Interventions with People

Who Use Drugs” By Ittiphol Chaicharoen, Project Coordinator, ACTTEAM, Khon Kaen

• “Creating Belonging and Empowerment: Baan Hug-M’s Community-Based HIV

Interventions” By Teerasak Lamool, Baan Hug-M, Ubon Ratchathani

Expected Outcomes:

• Share community-led ways to improve health and rights.

• Show how small local Org. can make a big impact.

• Open dialogue between communities, researchers, and policymakers for better support.