PHIM is brand new but worth a look …

Heavy alcohol use is harmful for people with HIV who are not on antiretrovirals.

How heartwarming that Barbara Bush used the opportunity a Myanmar / Burma press conference to talk about her family affairs. Who elected her anyway?

Here is the same story with two different headlines. I wish the name of the government official who denied sex work and drug use had been published. And what is an American doing up there?

This headline states the obvious. So are TB patients, malaria patients, cancer patients, and people with common colds.

Jim Chin thinks that the risk of generalised epidemics in Asia was exaggerated. That is true.

This is an article from Health and Development Networks.

An excellent article on one of the reasons for the possible drop in prevalence – an increase in condom distribution …

ဆြတ္ဇလန္ႏိုင္ငံ အေျခစိုက္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ လူမႈေရးအဖြဲ ့အစည္း (INGO) ျဖစ္သည့္ AFXB အေနျဖင့္ ပုဂၢလိကသတင္း မီဒီယာမ်ားမွ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားႏွင့္ အယ္ဒီတာမ်ားအတြက္ HIV/AIDS ေရာဂါ အသိပညာေပး သင္တန္းပို ့ခ် ဖြင့္လွစ္ေပးရန္ရွိေၾကာင္း ေဒၚေကသီရွိန္ကေျပာၾကားသည္။The Voice Journal – Vol.3/No.47 (03/11/2007)

Sounds like a poor reason to spend a day in Nay Pyi Taw.

It is worth reminding ourselves that the Tatmadaw is not the only army engaged in the field of HIV in the country.