Global Fund အဖြဲ႕ႀကီးဟာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို လာမယ့္တႏွစ္အတြင္း အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာသန္း ၁၁၀ ကူညီသြားမယ္ဆိုတဲ့ သတင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အခုလို လိုအပ္ေနတဲ့ အကူအညီကို ျပန္ေပးတဲ့အတြက္ ႀကိဳဆိုရမွာပါ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီအလႉေတြက တကယ္ လိုအပ္ေနတဲ့ သူေတြရဲ႕ လက္ထဲကုိ ေရာက္ႏုိင္တဲ့ အစီအစဥ္ေတြလည္း ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ရွိသင့္ပါတယ္။

The full terms of reference for these four LFA positions are attached.

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Two international NGO staff are quoted in this article to say: “there just isn't enough money” and “there isn't nearly enough money”. Focusing attention on funding alone is easy but may distract us from other constraints. There are many factors that make universal access to care, support, and treatment a challenge in Myanmar: let's hear more about them.

ကုလသမဂၢ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းတခုျဖစ္ေသာ UN Cares က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း HIV/ AIDS အေျခအေနကို ဗီဒီယို ႐ိုက္ကူးမည့္ အစီအစဥ္အတြက္ ယခု ဂ်ီနီဗာတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးေနသည္။

This article is a week late. … Phyu Phyu Tin says it is essential that aid reaches people who live in the countryside. Let's consider HIV. Most injecting drugs users shoot in urban areas. Female sex workers usually work in towns and cities. And the most active men who have sex with men have sex in the cities. So prevention activities must be primarily in cities. All people living with HIV have a right to care no matter where they live. … Tuberculosis is everywhere. Only malaria is concentrated in rural areas.

Here is an article from the always-progressive Laura Agustin with an analysis of an old report on migration and sex work in Mae Sot.

There is care in Mon State …

ေအ့ဒ္စ္ (AIDS) ေရာဂါ၊ ငွက္ဖ်ားေရာဂါ၊ တီဘီအဆုတ္နာေရာဂါ ေရာဂါသံုးမ်ဳိး တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးအတြက္ Global Fund အဖဲြ႕ႀကီးဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို အကူအညီေတြ ျပန္ေပးဖို႕ ဆံုးျဖတ္လိုက္ပါၿပီ။

Burma's northern neighbours get excited about the right to free speech on the internet. This was issued a month ago.

ပဲခူးတိုင္း အေရွ႕ဘက္ျခမ္းတြင္ အိတ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗီြ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရး စီမံကိန္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ က်န္းမာေရး မွဴး အသင္းမွ စီစဥ္လ်က္ရွိေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ အသင္း International Aids Society မွ အၾကီးအကဲ ေရာ္ဘင္ ေဂၚနာက ရုရွားသည္ ယခုအခါ အိပ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗီ ပိုးျပန္႔ပြားမႈကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ႏိုင္ျခင္း မရွိသျဖင့္ ကပ္ေရာဂါ သဖြယ္ ျဖစ္လာေနေၾကာင္း သတိေပးေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။