ဟုတ္ကဲ့ ဒီHIV ပိုးဆိုတာက ေလကဆင့္၊ ေရကတဆင့္၊ အစားအေသာက္က တဆင့္ကူးတာ မဟုတ္ဘူး၊ ဒီခႏၶၶၶာကိုယ္ အေပၚယံ ထိေတြ႔မႈေတြမ်ိဳးျဖစ္တဲ့ အဝတ္စား၊ အိပ္ယာေတြကတဆင့္ ကူးတာ မဟုတ္ဘူး၊ အဲဒီေတာ့ ဒီသြားတိုက္ေဆး၊ သြားတိုက္တံေတြကေရာ

When the money from the Global Fund Round 9 grant starts at the end of next week, the Myanmar CCM will need to consider whether to apply for a Round 11 grant late in 2011. Homework can begin by looking at the unsuccessful Round 10 applications, all now online …

ကံေကာင္းခ်င္ေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အတြက္ ေဆးအလွဴရွင္ ေပၚၿပီတဲ့၊ ေရႊျခေသၤ့က လာအေၾကာင္း ၾကားတယ္။ မိသားစု၀င္မ်ားတဲ့သူေတြနဲ႔ မျဖစ္မေန ေဆးေကၽြးရေတာ့မယ့္ သူေတြကို ဦးစား ေပးတာတဲ့။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ ႏွစ္ခ်က္လံုး ဆိုင္ေနတယ္။ မႏၱေလး သြားရမယ္၊ ဒီမွာက CD4 စစ္တာတို႔၊ အထူးကုဆရာ၀န္တို႔ ဘာမွ မရွိဘူးေလ။ လမ္းစားရိတ္ စားစရိတ္ေတာ့ ကိုယ့္ဘာသာ က်ခံရမယ္၊ က်န္တာ အလွဴရွင္က အကုန္ တာ၀န္ယူတယ္တဲ့။ အဲဒီစားရိတ္ သံုးေလးေထာင္ ေလာက္ကိုဘဲ မတတ္ႏိုင္လို႔ ထားခဲ့ပါေတာ့ ဆိုတဲ့သူ ၃ ေယာက္ ရွိတယ္။ သူတို႔ကိုေတာ့ ေရႊျခေသၤ့ကဘဲ စားရိတ္ေပးေခၚခဲ့တယ္။

Here is one of those World AIDS Day 'raising awareness' stories that makes the [him] moderator cringe. It was a waste of perfectly good funding.

Why did Tun Than not meet some people living with HIV instead of beans and pulses growers?

This posting will make some PMTCT fans upset …

Sad to see the at the 100 per cent condom promotion programme was launched last year in four townships, almost ten years since the [him] moderator evaluated the same programme in the same townships. What's going on?

Two comments on this World AIDS Day article in the Myanmar Times … 1) Though instant coffee helps to keep people awake, it can hardly be considered nutritional or food supplmentation for people living with HIV. One hopes Mingalar Myanmar will do better for people living with HIV in future. … 2) And regarding the second last paragraph, the Red Ribbon has nothing to do with drugs. It is only for HIV. Appropriation is in bad taste.

Finally, you could work at PSI.

Five years ago this week HIV Information for Myanmar [him] became a regular digital publication, offering daily email posts and a fledgling website.

if one wanted to.

Here is a challenging job.