Some limitations for the distribution of the prevention materials must however be mentioned. Thailand is a country which can offer some easy examples:

In Thailand, it may be unrealistic to directly ask professors from universities or some health care providers or some representatives from communities or enterprises to teach about HIV/AIDS prevention. Such requests may easily produce contra productive psychological uneasiness.

This is mainly due to some Thai cultural characteristics using hierarchic considerations and sophisticated politeness protocols between “server” and “client” or “provider” and “receiver” in any human contact and relationship. Real dialog and interactivity between teachers and students, doctors and patients, monks and laic's, even spouse and husband, etc. are often almost inexistent.

This explains why school's teachers or university's professors, monks, parents or even health care providers are often reluctant to get too much involved with details in AIDS prevention.

It is important for any prevention strategy to assume this restrictive cultural fact. Teachers, professors, nurses, monks, etc. will not be confronted with AIDS prevention work if they feel uncomfortable with sexual details. They may utilize AIDS specialized persons from outside their environment (external persons) to deliver the AIDS prevention information or they may refer to non metaphoric AIDS prevention materials that can be consulted in total privacy.

One example can be described as per distribution of new AIDS prevention materials in universities.

Professors will definitely be very reluctant to deliver themselves AIDS prevention materials that contain details on dangerous sexual practices. Relationship between professors and students is definitely not allowing such intimacy. A prevention strategy will, for instance approach rectors or deans to be granted authorization to distribute the prevention materials in their universities but will never use the “teaching” or “academic” structure to disseminate the AIDS prevention materials.

The prevention project can utilize some already existent student's groups who are already quite involved in AIDS prevention work inside the universities. To disseminate prevention material, these students may use their own human resources or may even call for an external person to present the new material (for instance a video clip) to university students. If the material is a non metaphoric poster, these students may display samples of this poster in some private places in their universities. (toilets..)