Perhaps Dr Khin Than Oo means this is the first time that CHEB has taken the audience into consideration in material development. But it is certainly not the first time that young people have participated in the development of health education materials in HIV in the country.

ဘီ၊ စီ ေရာဂါေတြျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အသည္းေရာင္ အသား၀ါေရာဂါဟာ ဗုိင္းရပ္စ္ပုိးတစ္မ်ိဳးေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ရတာပါ။ ကင္ဆာေရာဂါေတြထဲက အသည္းကင္ဆာ ေရာဂါနဲ႔ ေသဆံုးရသူဦးေရဟာလည္း ျမင့္မားေနဆဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အသည္းကင္ဆာ ေရာဂါဟာ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ ေဒသမွ အျဖစ္အမ်ားဆံုးလည္း ျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။ အသည္းကင္ဆာ ေရာဂါေ၀ဒနာရွင္ ၁၀၀မွာ ၈၀ဦးဟာ အသည္းေရာင္ အသား၀ါ ဘီ ေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္ရတာ လုိ႔လည္းသိရပါတယ္။ အသည္းေရာင္အသား၀ါ ဘီဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ပုိးဟာ ဒီအင္န္ေအ (DNA) ဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ပုိးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အုပ္စုအမည္ကေတာ့ Hepandna လုိ႔ ေခၚတယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။ ေရာဂါပုိးရဲ႕ေရာဂါပ်ိဳးခိ်န္ဟာ ေလးပတ္ကေန၂၀ ပတ္ခန္႔ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Family Health

Jim Chin is one of the few brave people who will say in public that overestimates and linking HIV to irrelevant other issues is often about the money.

This is a disappointing article from the usually sharp-eyed Kazmin. She didn't follow up on the absurd statement by an international civil servant of the United Nations: “This is an attempt to distinguish the humanitarian agenda from the human rights and political agenda because otherwise, you mix them up and don’t make progress on anything,” said one UN official involved.” One cannot separate humanitarian relief and human rights. No more than you can separate human development and human rights. There are inseparable.

Most MMCWA members have husbands who benefit directly from their investments in the sex industry. How are they going to deal with loss of income?

Cambodia has just revised its HIV prevalence estimates …

One of the best articles on HIV in Myanmar ever written was authored by Jon Cohen and published in Science three years ago.

Here is a roundup of training activities.

Those of us who appreciate Jim Chin for both his clear scientific work and his unmasking of the politico-epidemiological scheming of some in the the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization are delighted to see that Stephen Lewis also thinks he is right. And says so in Nature.

Here is the HIV part of the NCGUB Burma Human Rights Yearbook 2006 …

“Poverty, high levels of mobility and displacement, low awareness of family planning and HIV transmission, scarcity of health care services, a growing sex industry, injecting drug use and sexual violence are all contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS.”

Here are is a blog post from Melody Myaung …