A few of the consequences of low coverage of treatment for HIV are covered in this article. The [him] moderator would like to see a similar article describing the human costs of delay in scaling up prevention services. … The article appears in Burmese on the Irrawaddy website.

The [him] moderator has received the following request for advice from a reader.

The only imbalance here is an imbalance in scarcity.

The National AIDS Programme 2006 report is now available in paper form at the UNAIDS office on the 12th Floor of Traders Hotel Yangon.

Attached are two large PDF documents that form the 2006 report on the National AIDS Programme in Myanmar. Key populations at higher risk are highlighted.

အာရွေဒသ တခုလံုးမွာရွိတဲ့ လူဦးေရ သန္း ၁၅သန္းကေန သန္း ၂၀ ၾကားရွိတဲ့ နယ္ေျမေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း ႏုိင္ငံျခား အလုပ္သမားေတြကို အာရွႏိုင္ငံေတြအေနနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ အသံုးခ်စရာျပႆနာလို႔ ျမင္ေနမဲ့အစား လုပ္ အားတရပ္အျဖစ္ ျမင္သင့္တယ္လုိ႔ ကုလသမဂၢ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းအလုပ္သာမား အဖြဲ႕ႀကီး IOM က ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၀ရက္ ဒီကေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္တဲံ အစီအရင္ခံစာမွာ တုိက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။-20-10-08 လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္၂၀၀၆ ခုႏွစ္ စာရင္းအရ အိတ္္ခ်္အိုင္ဗီ ကူးစက္ခံရသူေပါင္း ၃ သိန္းေက်ာ္ခန္႔ရွိသည္ ဟု အစိုးရက ဆိုသည္။
ျပည္တြင္း အန္ဂ်ီအို တခုျဖစ္ေသာ spring မွ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္တြင္ အိတိ္ခ်္အို္င္ဗီိပုိးကူးစက္ခံရ သူေပါင္း ၅ သိန္း ေက်ာ္ခန္႔ရွိသည္ဟုု အနီးစပ္ဆံုး ခန္႔မွန္းထုတ္ျပန္ထားေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။ – ၾကည္ေ၀ | ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၁၊ ၂၀၀၈ – Irrawaddy

People from Myanmar / Burma are eligible for these scholarships. Go for them!

This is a big cost saving change for those brave enough to implement it immediately.

The International Crisis Group has another report out on Burma/Myanmar. This one has an easy to understand antisanction primer. And the rest of the report makes a lot of sense, too. The summary is below and the report is attached.

Phone Kyaw is a driver for the author of this blog travelogue. Do you agree with this driver?

Great place to catch up on the latest science and practice and rub shoulders with other ART providers from Southeast Asia …