Here is an announcement about the GF Round 7 HIV proposals. There are not many successes from Asia this time. Is Myanmar ready for a Round 8 proposal? BTW, SEA-AIDS is a great resource. Subscription details are at the bottom of the post.

Dr Min Thwe is absolutely correct when he says that “The 3DF alone is not enough to achieve nationwide coverage for our programs”. His comment would have carried more weight if he had announced at the same time an increase in the governmental budget for HIV.
Will no one from any UN agency or any NGO share any documents from this meeting with the [him] moderator? Your identity will not be revealed.

တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံသည္ HIV ကူးစက္ခံႏုိင္ငံျခားသားမ်ား ၎တို႔၏ ႏုိင္ငံတြင္းသို႔ ၀င္ေရာက္ျခင္းမွ တားျမစ္သည့္ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ၾကာ ဥပေဒကို ျပန္လည္ျပင္ဆင္ေတာ့မည္ဟု က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌါနမွ ေျပာၾကားသည္။ BBC

The junta thought that allowing Al Jazeera into the country would benefit them by providing an 'antiwestern' view. How wrong they were. … Is the “one long-term expatriate NGO worker” correct when s/he says that most official development goes to UN salaries? I think this is a mistruth. The Three Disease Fund is ODA and it is not spent mostly on UN salaries. S/he should be careful what s/he says. Telling lies to the media will not help the people of Burma.

A reader posted a question on the NGO statement in [him] 525 “What about MSF and AZG? And all the other NGOs working in Burma?” Here is an answer from MSF.

Check out this new blog by a student in Thailand. The author is not afraid to express an opinion …

Nice new look …

What a relief that the late Gaetan Dugas has been exonerated as we now know that HIV came to the US in a Haitian instead of a Canadian. This 'origins of AIDS' research is, in his view, a waste of time. It encourages stigma and discrimination. Did HIV come from Thailand to Myanmar or from Myanmar to Thailand. Who cares?

The [him] moderator would have thought that the Campaign would be unreservedly delighted that one of their recommendations was partly fulfiled. Most campaigns see no impact from their work.

This is from a posting by NAM. It is well considered. You can read the entire posting on the web or email the [him] moderator and he will email it to you.

Go for them …

The [him] moderator has received this anonymous remark on the humanitarian joint statement posted on 31 October: