Good to see a GBLT event.

These articles reinforce what the [him] moderator thinks about World AIDS Day: it is an idea past its prime and a colossal waste of money. It should be abandoned.

This study confirms what most HIV professionals have suspected for several years: HIV prevalence is low in the camps. … The [him] moderator cannot understand why their findings have made camp health authorities switch to opt out mandatory HIV testing of pregnant women. Can anyone explain this?

Yu Yu Din is incorrect in saying that WHO puts Myanmar on an HIV list with Sierra Leone. That old ranking was for general health care. She needs to be more careful in her research. … But her view on discrimination is heartfelt. The [him] moderator hopes to hear more from her about her family.

Zin Mar Soe has asked the following question in the HIV Information for Myanmar [him] blog comment box. Would any readers like to post replies?

ျပည္တြင္းရွိ HIV/ AIDS ေဝဒနာရွင္မ်ားကုိ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးေနေသာ အန္ဂ်ီအိုမ်ားက လူနာသစ္မ်ား လက္မခံေတာ့ သျဖင့္ ၎ ေဝဒနာ သည္မ်ားကို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ေပးေနေသာ မျဖဴျဖဴသင္းတို႔ထံသို႔ ေဝဒနာရွင္မ်ားစြာ ေရာက္ရွိလာရာ ေဆးဝါးႏွင့္ စရိတ္စက အခက္အခဲမ်ား ႀကံဳေတြ႕ေနရေၾကာင္း ၾကားသိရသည္။ သတင္း – ေအးခ်မ္းေျမ ့(ဧရာသတီသတင္း ဌာန) ၂၆၊၁၂၊၂၀၀၈

Well this is certainly a dramatic story from the UN humanitarian affairs press service. Can anyone explain the point?

The [him] moderator would like to post the following question from an anonymous commenter on the blog. Would anyone like to post a reply? Just email the information to HIV.Information.for.Myanmar@gmail.com and it will be anonymously posted.

Here is an article about Karuna's HIV programme.

The following is a translation of an invitation to the “We Are All Equal Festival” in Yangon in January.

HIV/AIDS ကူးစက္ေရာဂါအျဖစ္မ်ားတဲ့ ေကာ့ေသာင္း၊ၿမိတ္နဲ ့ ထား၀ယ္ေထင္ေတြမွာ က်န္းမာေရး ေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈ အပိုင္းနည္းပါးတဲ့အတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြဆီကို ဒီကူးစက္ေရာဂါေတြ ကူးလာႏိုင္တဲ့အေျခအေနေတြ ရွိေန RFA ၂၂၊၁၂၊၂၀၀၈

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ARV ေဆးျပားေတြ ျပတ္လပ္မႈအႀကီးအက်ယ္ ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရတယ္လို ့နယ္စည္းမျခား ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားအဖြဲ ့ (MSF)ကၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့လက ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာပါတယ္။ အဲဒီထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ထဲမွာ အစိုးရဘက္က တာ၀န္ယူေျဖရွင္းေပးဖို ့နဲ ့ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အလွဴရွင္အစိုးရေတြ အေနနဲ ့လည္း ၀ိုင္း၀န္းကူညီဖို ့တိုက္တြန္းထားပါတယ္။ RFA ၂၂၊၁၂၊၂၀၀၈