Three hundred million condoms are distributed among a population of sixty million in Thailand every year. Myanmar has a slightly smaller population, we think. Yet less than one fifth, we think, of this number of condoms is distributed. Why? Is ten baht a condom too much to pay in a middle income country? Jamie **************************** […]

“ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ဒီဆိုးရြားတဲ့ ေရာဂါေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အေျခေန တိုးတက္ေအာင္ လုပ္ရမယ့္ လုပ္ရပ္ေတြက အမ်ား ႀကီး က်န္ပါေသးတယ္။ ဒီအထဲမွာ အေရးအပါဆံုးသူေတြက သူနာျပဳေတြ သားဖြားဆရာေတြနဲ႔ တျခား က်န္းမာေရး ဝန္ထမ္းေတြပါ။ သူတို႔က HIV/AIDS ေဝဒနာရွင္ေတြအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုး လုပ္ေပးႏုိင္တာကို ႏိုင္ငံ တိုင္းလိုလုိမွာ ေတြ႔ ရေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ေတာ့ ဆရာဝန္က လံုလံုေလာက္ေလာက္ မရွိတဲ့ ေက်းလက္ေဒသေတြမွာ သူတို႔က သိပ္အေရးပါပါတယ္။

Chan Myae Khine writes for Global Voices http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/mydaydream/. Though the moderator certainly does not agree with much of what she says and objects to some of the terms she uses, she is out there saying what she thinks. More voices are needed. Jamie ************************************* Prostitution will remain illegal in Burma Chan Myae Khine Jul 15, […]