U Aung Thein from the Central Executive Committee of the National League for Democracy blames the Suppression of Prostitution Act which was passed shortly after independence. It is true that this old colonial legislation is outdated, but then there is the enforcement of it …

တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ၊ ရွန္ဟိုင္းၿမိဳ႕ တကၠသိုလ္ႏွင့္ ေကာလိပ္မ်ားတြင္ ကြန္ဒံုးမ်ား အခမဲ့ ေဝငွမႈကို ပထမဆံုး ျပဳလုပ္သြားမည္ဟု သိရသည္။ AIDS ေရာဂါ ကူးစက္မႈကို ဟန္႔တားရန္ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ျဖင့္ ယခုလို ေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္းဟု ရွန္ဟိုင္းအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ဆိုသည္။

One of the most important studies presented at last month's international AIDS conference was the CAMELIA study conducted in nearby Cambodia. People with TB and HIV frequently die. If antiretroviral therapy is not given early enough they die more quickly. Antiretroviral therapy should be started just two weeks after TB treatment begins. The longer you wait, the more they die.