There is a wonderful typo: vulnerability is replaced by venerability. But the transborder issues are vague in this article.

The Global Fund has finally replied to the question on PRs and CCMs posted http://www.hivinfo4mm.org/blog/_archives/2007/10/3/3259415.html or him 490 on 3 October.

This UN General Assembly record is posted in full for your reading pleasure. The [him] moderator had to laugh when the representative from Myanmar could only come up with the national PMCT programme as the best that Myanmar could do. “In the health sector, the “Prevention of Mother-to—Child Transmission Programme” was launched with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and other organizations to combat HIV/AIDS.” Myanmar's PMCT programme is probably one of the weakest programmes in the country. But how would he know that? And how does UNICEF feel about being referred to just before a denial of sexual assault by the army?

Once the condom is on, size doesn't matter. Really.

An anonymous comment was received.

၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ HIV ေ၀ဒနာရွင္ ၆၀၀၀ ကို ARV ေဆးတုိက္ေကၽြးရန္ စီစၪ္ထားသည့္ နယ္စည္းမျခား ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားအဖြဲ ့ ေဟာ္လန္(AZG)က ေနာက္ထပ္ ေ၀ဒနာရွင္ ၂၀၀၀ အား တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးတြင္ တိုးျမွင့္တုိက္ေကၽြးသြားမည္ဟု နယ္စည္းမျခားဆရာ၀န္မ်ားအဖြဲ ့(ေဟာ္လန္)AZG မွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူတစ္ဦး၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္အရသိရသည္။ Weekly Eleven, No-1, Vol-3,(10/17/2007)

The Health Messenger bilingual magazine for health workers has an issue on HIV posted on the web …

The Myanmar Times is interested in stories about HIV …

“Even allowing for poetic licence, this paragraph has absurd assertions. Drug traffickers do not distribute needles with HIV on them. HIV incidence is not increasing in Thailand and the border region of Laos is not noting an increase. The [him] moderator hopes the authors of this article know more about diplomacy than they do about HIV. Their credibility is at stake.”

Here is a fellowship to apply for.

Can anyone confirm whether Kyaw Thu has been detained?

Remember the Avaaz email petition that went around two weeks ago? How good it felt to think we were doing something by signing it? Ricken Patel of Avaaz wrote me today that the petition has not yet been presented to the UN or China.