Here are two Americans who want to help Burma / Myanmar.

If the site is not blocked in Myanmar here is a chance for health workers to get training on public health.

This Hong Kong Standard story from Agence France Presse tells of members of the Sangha responding to HIV in the community. Loving-kindness in action.

Here is a call for documenting successful social marketing approaches. Do you think condom social marketing in Burma / Myanmar would qualify? I do.

Web links on first aid are provided at the end of Saw Lwin's article. Now is a good time to save them, print them, and prepare.

This rather mysterious news piece from Mizzima uses many words to say something all health workers know: “First do no harm.”

In China they practice VCT. Voluntary Cash for Testing. And then when the money is finished there is no more testing. This is unethical and should be stopped before it starts.

The [him] moderator has received the following request. He also notes that members of the Sangha have urged the Burmese people to hold prayer vigils …

It is now clear that Dr Prasada Rao did not say all the things that were written in the samizdat paper that has been posted on the [him] website and is in the public domain.

It is rare to hear Peter Piot of UNAIDS make a technical speech rather than a political one. This talk on sexually transmitted infections is very well written. And it is officially published on the UNAIDS website as a transcript so we can all be sure that this is exactly what he said!

The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights in an independent group convened by UNAIDS to give guidance on human rights. They have just released a statement and recommendations ….

How interesting that the civil society representative from China is more democratic and participative in representing us and communicating with us than the one from India …