ခင္ပြန္းသည္မ်ားမွ တဆင့္HIV/AIDS ေရာဂါကူးစက္ခံေနရသူ အိမ္ေထာင္ရွင္အမ်ဳိးသမီးဦးေရ တိုးပြားလာေနျခင္းသည္ ဦးစားေပးေဆာင္ရြက္ရမည့္ ကိစၥျဖစ္သည္ဟု မၾကာမီကျပဳလုပ္ေသာေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတစ္ခုတြင္ က်န္းမာေရးဌာန၀န္ႀကီး မြန္ေကာနာေဆာင္ခလာက ေျပာၾကားသည္။ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္အတြင္းအိမ္ေထာင္သည္မ်ား အၾကားေရာဂါကူးစက္မႈ တုိးပြားလာသည္ကုိ စုိးရိမ္ေၾကာင္းေျပာသည္။

The [him] moderator is not sure he fully agrees with the statement from Altsean that “Internationally the human rights community also spoke up for her release.” The media organisations Mizzima, DVB, and Irrawaddy spoke up. But the [him] moderator thought the international human rights community and international HIV activists were remarkably silent on the issue of her detention.

Here is a long report from the US General Accounting Office …

This snip from the BBC website was published almost six years ago. It is a good time to examine it to see if the predictions came true. The situation in Burma has not come close to the worst situations in Africa.

The [him] moderator agrees with Mr Parker who writes: “On the other side of the humanitarian coin, if groups insist that the UN be subject to strict oversight, they must be also. This should apply to cross-border aid groups and indeed any group working on Burma. There also needs to be acknowledgement that internal and cross-border humanitarian intervention can be complimentary. There are still cross-border advocators (sic) that suggest that no aid should enter Burma through official channels, arguing that it is possible to reach the same populations cross-border. Given the current situation, all evidence suggests that this is absurd.”

Burma's military government has released a prominent political activist detained since May.

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, has announced its decision to honour the Mizzima News Agency with its 2007 Free Media Pioneer Award.

He would like the human rights centres at UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins to support the development of human rights based programming and other activities that they suggest are necessary for effective and equitable service delivery inside Burma/Myanmar.

One of the participants at last month's testing and counselling consultation in Phnom Penh has kindly shared this background paper with the [him] moderator. Do you think this community view was adequately taken into account in the final recommendations of the consultation?