The Grey Lady or Gray Lady finally ‘opines’. A New York Times Op Ed. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar’s Deadly Medicine Editorial Board New York Times 17 March 2014 A cynical decision by Myanmar to ban Doctors Without Borders from the state of Rakhine has left some 750,000 people without medical care since Feb. 28. About 150 […]

This article comes from an unlikely source – a website called Vice. A recent article in Vice was titled “A Deranged Math Teacher Named Sky Smith Gave Me Money to Throw a Concert in My Mom’s Guest House”. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar Flip-Flops on Foreign Medical Aid Danny Gold March 4, 2014 | 11:00 am Amid […]

ဒီဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ပိုး ဘယ္လိုစတယ္ ဆုိတာကို ကမၻာ့က်န္းမာေရး အဖြဲ႕ႀကီး (WHO) ရဲ႕ ယူဆခ်က္ကိုေတာ့ အဖြဲ႕ႀကီးရဲ႕ႏွစ္စဥ္ က်င္းပၿမဲျဖစ္တဲ့ အစည္းအေဝးႀကီး (၁၉၈၇ ခုႏွစ္) မွာ တင္ျပခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါကေတာ့ AIDS ေရာဂါပိုး ျဖစ္တဲ့ (HIV) အိပ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗြီဟာ “သဘာဝ အေလ်ာက္ ေပၚထြန္းလာတဲ့ retro-virus (ရီႀတိဳဗိုင္းရပ္စ္) ျဖစ္ၿပီး ပထဝီေဒသအရေတာ့ အဆံုးအျဖတ္ မေပးႏိုင္တဲ့ ေဒသက စတယ္” လို႔ ဆိုတယ္။

A comment was made on the Science Speaks blog about the Irin article that [him] reported on as “Hard to reach in the most extreme sense” http://www.hivinfo4mm.org/hard-to-reach-in-the-most-extreme-sense/. Jill Gay March 13, 2014 at 3:02 pm commented: “We completed a gender assessment in Myanmar in collaboration with UNAIDS, to be released publicly later this year, but […]

Has David Wilson done an analysis of spending in Myanmar yet? http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/18822/3519 Jamie

အမ်ိဳးသမီးက တဆင့္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး ကူးစက္တဲ့ ႐ွားပါး HIV ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔မႈ တစ္ခုကို ႐ွာေဖြေတြ႔႐ွိတယ္လို႔ အေမရိကန္ ေရာဂါ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ေရး႒ာန (CDC) က သတင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါတယ္။ အေမရိကန္ တကၠဆက္ျပည္နယ္ေန အမ်ိဳးသမီး တစ္ေယာက္ဟာ တျခား အမ်ိဳးသမီး တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔ လိင္ဆက္ဆံရာက တဆင့္ HIV ကူဆက္ခဲ့တာပါ။

ဆရာဝန္ေတြ ထင္ေယာင္ေယာင္ ရွိေနတာကို ထံုးစံအတိုင္း AIDS ေရာဂါနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အသစ္အဆန္း သတင္း ငတ္ေနၾကသူ စာနယ္ဇင္း သမားေတြက ေရးႀကီးခြင့္က်ယ္ သတင္း တစ္ခုအျဖစ္နဲ႔ ထည့္လုိက္ေတာ့ ျပႆနာ တက္စရာ ျဖစ္လာတာေပါ့။ ေနာက္တစ္ခါပိုၿပီး အထင္မွားစရာ ျဖစ္လာတာကေတာ့ AIDS ေရာဂါပိုး ေသြးစစ္ သုေတသနက ေတြ႕ရွိခ်က္ပဲ။ အဲဒီ အခ်ိန္ေလာက္မွာ AIDS ဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ပိုး ရွိ-မရွိ စစ္လို႔ရလာတယ္။

The MSF shutdown story has finally made it to the NYT. MSF provides ART to 285,000 people worldwide. Since 30,000 people get it in Myanmar then 15% of all people who get ART from MSF get it in Myanmar. Would you call the Rohingya a sect? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Ban on Doctors’ Group Imperils Myanmar Sect […]

The envelope please. Here are the country allocations from the Global Fund for the next three or four years. http://www.theglobalfund.org/documents/fundingmodel/FundingModel_CountryAllocation_Table_en/ http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/fundingmodel/allocationprocess/allocations/ Jamie

Here is an anonymous comment on the suspension of MSF Holland services in Rakhine: “Quoting the words of Dr Soe Win Nyein, ” the Ministry of Health was capable of managing the health needs of “the whole community” in Rakhine State, adding, “We don’t need to lose any lives [because of the ban].” If his […]

AIDS ေရာဂါ အစရွာပံုေတာ္ကို ဆက္ၾကရရင္ စာေတြ႕သေဘာနဲ႔ ေျပာရင္ေတာ့ ေရာဂါ အရင္းခံ အစကို ရွာမယ္ဆိုရင္ ပထမဦးဆံုးေသာ လူနာ ဘယ္မွာလဲဆိုတာ ရွာလို႔ ရရမယ္။ ဒါက စိတ္ရွည္လက္ရွည္နဲ႔ ေနာက္ေၾကာင္းျပန္ေကာက္ၿပီး တစ္ဆင့္စီ တစ္ဆင့္စီ တစ္လွမ္းခ်င္း ေနာက္ျပန္ ဆုတ္ၿပီး ရွာရမွာ။ ေရာဂါက ဘယ္လို ကူးစက္တယ္ဆိုတာကို သိရင္ ဒီလို လုပ္လို႔ ရမယ္။

I have three questions about Suu Kyi’s new foundation as she enters the strange world of ‘philanthropy’. I know that I may make some people upset. 1) Why is she registering her foundation in the US? It then becomes effectively an American foundation, a foreign foundation, and will be subject to all the limits that […]