Marshall has produced one of the best articles on HIV in Burma/Myanmar in the last year. He wishes Laurie Garrett, author of the famous ‘smoking gun’ mixed metaphor, had been left out. This time she has come out with a Bandaid metaphor and follows up with a remark on the aid dilemma: “This is ugly stuff.”

Walk on, walk on What you got they can't steal it No they can't even feel it Walk on, walk on… Stay safe tonight. Bono

“We would like to help Viet Nam but charity begins at home.” …

The Irrawaddy made an error in the second paragraph of this first announcement of the 3D Fund. It is AusAID not USAID. The [him] moderator agrees with the Johns Hopkins researcher who wonders how the Fund will avoid the mistakes made by the Global Fund.

Well-funded agencies should refuse extra funding no matter where it comes from.

The [him] moderator has discovered that internet connections have been poor a lot longer than three days.

Behavioural sentinel surveillance data collected two and a half years ago by the National AIDS Programme has been published in a report entitled “Behavioural Surveillance Survey 2003 General Population and Youth”. It is available as a two megabyte file on the web so it is effectively unavailable to most people living in the county. Here is the Executive Summary:

Sorry for all the slashes in the title of this posting. The report is attached so that you can read it.

Who needs poppies to make amphetamines?

Attached is a copy of the Mae Tao Clinic annual report from last year. There are no antiretrovirals prescribed for the one in fifty pregnant women tested who are HIV positive.

This report previews the announcement of the 3D Fund.

Another nonAsian company has pulled out of Burma. Is this considered a success? The Irrawaddy suggests that campaigners are out of touch and compromise is needed.