World AIDS Day photos from Mae Sot …

It is time to think about reporting on the UNGASS indicators again. ICASO has prepared a guide to help civil society do this. Some think that the decrease in the number of 'shadow reports' is an indication that civil society is now more involved in analysing the situation and preparing the report. That is a partial truth at best. But here is a chance for civil society to show how accountability and transparency really work.

We know that the girls and women 14 though 25 were married as they are addressed as Mrs. What about the men?

If nonsterile injecting equipment continues to be used in prisons we should hear about it.

ဤေဆာင္းပါးပါ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားသည္ HIM တြင္ ေဖၚျပေနက်ျဖစ္ေသာ HIV/AIDS သတင္း၊ ေဆာင္းပါးမ်ားႏွင့္ တိုက္႐ိုက္ဆက္စပ္မႈ မရွိပါ။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း HIM ဝက္ဆိုဒ္ Cbox တြင္ သုတ္လႊတ္ျမန္ျခင္းအေၾကာင္း ေမးျမန္းမႈမ်ားရွိလာပါသည္။ သို႔ပါ၍ ထိုအေမးမ်ားကို ျပန္လည္ ေျဖၾကားျခင္း အားျဖင့္လည္းေကာင္း HIM စာဖတ္ပရိတ္သတ္မ်ား အေနျဖင့္ လိင္က်န္းမာေရး ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ အသိပညာမ်ား တိုးပြားေစျခင္းငွာ ျပန္လည္ တင္ျပေပးလိုက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

The Thais have finally funded the blood bank that has been looking for funds for at least the last seven years …

Now these HIV programme visitors from Myanmar, sponsored by the US government, are bound to bring back to their country lots of lessons they learned from visiting Indianapolis. Maybe they took them for an off season visit to the raceway. And Thanksgiving dinner for the needy, too.

A Chinese publication has tried to publish a human interest story. Sometimes the translation is not so good. For instance: “Only a small portion of HIV positive people in Myanmar are cured.” Like no one anywhere.

This just in from an anonymous reader. Only the National AIDS Programme director can stop this.

ကမၻာ့ေပၚတြင္ အိပ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗီ ကူးစက္ခံ ထားရသူ ၆၄ သန္းမွ်ရွိေနၿပီး ကူးစက္ ခံရသူ အမ်ားစုမွာ ေရြ႕ေျပာင္း အလုပ္ လုပ္ၾကသူမ်ားျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ယခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ က်ေရာက္သည့္ (၂၂)ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကမၻာ့ ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ အခမ္းအနားတြင္ မူးယစ္ဆန္႔က်င္ေရး အသင္းမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူက ေျပာသည္။

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အိပ္ခ်္အုိင္ဗီြ ကူးစက္ခံရသူမ်ားအေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၾကသည့္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕အေျခစိုက္ အန္ဂ်ီအုိမ်ားသည္ တဖြဲ႔ႏွင့္တဖြဲ႔ ပြင့္လင္း႐ိုးသားစြာ အျပန္အလွန္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကၿပီး ARV ေဆးမ်ား ပိုမိုျဖန္႔ျဖဴးႏိုင္ေစရန္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သင့္ေၾကာင္း အိပ္ခ်္အုိင္ဗီြ/ ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ ေ၀ဒနာရွင္မ်ားကို ကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေနသူ မျဖဴျဖဴသင္းက ေျပာသည္။