If the CCM begins to function soon in Burma / Myanmar then it is time to catch up with Global Fund thinking on them …

A netbot picked this up for the [him] moderator. It is full of inaccuracies and bizarre observations.

This study confirms what we already suspected. People with HIV and TB who are only treated for their TB die.

Angie wants to go inside to work with “AIDS victims” but gave money to Human Rights Watch instead. … Go figure.

The [him] moderator is delighted that Ni Ni Myint carries on the Myanmar Times tradition of reporting first hand about HIV. He has two comments …

ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ၾသဂုတ္လက ေသြးလႉရွင္အဖြဲ႔ ၁၂ဖြဲ႔မွ လႉဒါန္းေသာ ေသြးပမာဏသည္ တစ္ႏွစ္လံုးတြင္ အမ်ားဆံုးပမာဏ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း HIV ပိုးေတ႔ြရွိမႈမွာ ၂၀၀၂ ခုႏွစ္မွစ၍ အနည္းဆံုး ေတြ႔ရွိရမႈျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဗဟိုအမ်ိဳးသား ေသြးလႉဘဏ္မွ သိရသည္။ 7 Day News

This blog posting from Refugees International mentions a local organisation that can provide antiretroviral therapy for just twenty dollars a month. If that price includes service delivery then it is among the lowest costs for ART care in the world and deserves support.

An infomercial for the MMA.

The [him] moderator has in the past been accused of WHO-bashing. He knows the organisation just a little too well. But Richard Garfield of WHO has stepped way out on a limb with his ludicrous recommendation that swimming lessons would save lives during water surges in coastal areas. Where is the evidence that swimming lessons would save lives? Isn't WHO supposed to take evidence into consideration before making recommendations? Where is your data and evidence, Dr Garfield?

Population Services International (PSI)/ Myanmar is a non-profit, non-political and non-sectarian organization that has been implementing health programs successfully throughout Myanmar for the past twelve years. To strengthen our ability to market a range of health products, services and behaviors we require appropriately talented Myanmar nationals for the following positions …

The [him] moderator promises that he won't post much more about Nargis. But this excellent piece from his new home town magazine notes that 'Rent' was staged a few years ago in Rangoon. Who knew? It is about the impact of HIV on young people. Rent on Broadway closed last week.

အသံုးဝင္မည့္ အကိုးအကား အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားအခန္းမွ အိတ္ခ်္အုိင္ဗြီ/ေအအုိင္ဒီအက္စ္အေရးကိစၥအတြက္ လုပ္ကိုင္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနေသာ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံရွိ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားကို ဆက္သြယ္ႏိုင္ရန္ လိပ္စာအျပည့္အစံုႏွင့္ ၎အဖဲြ႕မ်ားအေၾကာင္း အက်ဥ္းခ်ဳပ္ကို ယခုစာမ်က္ႏွာတြင္ ေဖၚျပသြားမည္။ အိတ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗြီ၊ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ သတင္းေရးသားေပးပို႔ျခင္းလမ္းၫႊန္ စာမ်က္ႏွာ (၁၅၁) မွ (၁၅၇) အထိတင္ျပထားသည္။