A paper by UN staff on coverage of HIV prevention and care interventions in Myanmar / Burma was posted two weeks ago. The paper is part of a very small 'series' that is a small output from the border health meeting in Bangkok over a year ago. This paper needs to be read by everyone concerned about HIV in Burma / Myanmar. With this level of analysis available no one outside can now say that they don't know what is going on inside. It directly challenges both the government and other stakeholders to do more on HIV in the country.

Watch this space to see it the new Thai drug war follows the same trajectory as the old one.

A theory …

Studies conducted in the Bronx may not be relevant in Burma / Myanmar. But illegal drug use was less a predictor of ART nonadherence than smoking …

There is a new Burmese language guide on using the internet that will be helpful to readers of [him].

Here is Thingyan reading – a paper on HIV activity coverage by UN staff.

The epidemic among men who have sex with men, whether gay identified or not, continues almost unabated in Thailand. With this kind of consequence. And in Burma / Myanmar?

It appears that the Commission may have led us down the infectious disease path in naming AIDS as the number one killer among one population group in Asia. Will they clarify the confusion or will silence reign?

Here is a new paper on Shan health that you can download. If you email the [him] moderator he will email it to you. It is about 200,000 bytes.

က်န္းမာေရးအေထာက္အကူ ပစၥည္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္ေသာ ကြန္ဒံုးကိုအမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ အသံုးျပဳဖို ့မ၀့ံမရဲျဖစ္ေနၿပီး လက္ခံသံုးစြဲၾကျခင္းျဖင့္ က်န္းမာေရးအရ မျမင္ေတြ ့ရေသာေရာဂါမ်ားကို ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။အခ်ိဳ ့ကဒီပစၥည္းကိုျမင္တာနဲ ့ရႈံ ့သြားတယ္၊ရွက္ေနၾကတယ္ တကယ္ဆိုဒီပစၥည္းဟာ က်န္းမာေရးကိုအမ်ားႀကီး အေထာက္အကူျပဳတယ္ ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ ေရာဂါတစ္ခုတည္းမဟုတ္ဘူး သားဆက္ျခားဖို ့နဲ ့ကာလသားေရာဂါကို ကာကြယ္ဖို ့ပါသံုး ႏိုင္ၿပီး အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရာဂါကို ကာကြယ္ဖို ့ပါ အမ်ိဳးသမီးသံုးေတြဆို သားအိမ္ေခါင္းကင္ဆာကိုပါ ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ဆရာ၀န္တဦးက အသိပညာေပးေျပာျပသည္။သတင္း – ဖတ္ပါ့ ( ၀၈၊၀၄၊၂၀၀၈ )

You can download documents from this website.

The [him] moderator asked readers' opinions on the film about HIV that won an award at 'Myanmar's Oscars” in [him] 634. Here is a reply.