Read the latest on HIV or AIDS in Myanmar and Burma at http://www.unaids.org/en/Regions_Countries/Countries/myanmar.asp if you have web access. It is attached as a PDF.

ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ေရာဂါသည္ မ်ား၏ေဆး၀ါးအခက္အခဲကို ေျဖရွင္းေပးရန္္ ဆႏၵျပေသာေၾကာင့္ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံေနရသည့္ ကိုတင္ကိုအား ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ကိုယ္ခံစြမ္းအားက်ေရာဂါ (ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္) ရွင္မ်ားစုေပါင္း၍ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊထံ ယေန႔ စာေရးေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္ – သတင္း – ပီတာေအာင္ / ၁၀ ဧၿပီ ၂၀၀၇

Canada mentions human rights, HIV and Myanmar in one sentence at the UN. At the recent Human Rights Council meeting. It is in the first paragraph.

This interview is taken from a back copy of the Myanmar Times.

It is always refreshing to read the honest journalism of Aung Zaw in the Irrawaddy. This is the first time the [him] moderator has seen a published figure for the budget of the Mae Tao Clinic: twenty dollars per new patient.

This NCGUB position is now five years old. Time for a new one.

Thanks to Mark Farmaner for forwarding information about this interesting inquiry.

ပုဂၢလိကက်န္းမာေရးေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈက႑အတြက္ ဥပေဒျပ႒ာန္း၍ စည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္းမ်ား သတ္မွတ္ ဥပေဒအတိုင္း တႏုိင္ငံလံုး တေျပးညီက်င့္သံုးရန္ လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ထိုဥပေဒကို အေၾကာင္းျပဳ၍ ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား လာဘ္စားရန္အတြက္ စားကြက္ထြင္ေပးျခင္းမ်ဳိးမျဖစ္ရန္ အေရးႀကီး

There are two news clippings in the text. And one clipping and photos attached. Tin Ko, a 33-year-old Burmese HIV patient, staged a solo protest on Wednesday in Rangoon, calling for better health care for people who suffer from the disease …

ေအ့ဒ္စ္ေရာဂါရွင္တဦး ေဆးရရိွေရးဆႏၵျပသျဖင့္ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရကိုယ္ခံစြမ္းအားက်ဆင္းေရာဂါ (ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္) ရွင္မ်ားႀကံဳေတြ႕ေနရသည့္ ေဆး၀ါးရရိွေရး အခက္ အခဲ ေျပလည္ေစရန္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၌ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ဆႏၵျပ သည့္ အိပ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗြီပိုး ကူးစက္ခံေနရသူတဦးကို အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ေခၚယူထိန္းသိမ္းလုိက္သည္။ သတင္း – ေခာတ္ၿပိဳင္၅ ဧၿပီ ၂၀၀၇

This posting follows up on http://www.hivinfo4mm.org/blog/_archives/2007/3/31/2845373.html . This is a very disappointing output from the Asian AIDS Commission. The press release looks the same as the dozens of press releases from AIDS meetings of nonAsians in Asia. What is “multipartner sex”? Many people having sex together at the same time? This term is as confusing as the older one “crossborder sex”. Why are mobile workers being demonised as spreaders of HIV?