ဒန္နီယယ္ရဲ႕ ခ်စ္သူ မိန္းကေလးေတြထဲက တခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း ဒီကိစၥ ႀကိဳသိခဲ့လုိ႔ HIV သြားစစ္ေဆးတဲ့အခါ သူတုိ႔မွာလည္း Positive ျဖစ္ေနတာ ဝမ္းနည္းစြာပဲ သိခဲ့ရပါတယ္တဲ့။ ႐ုိေမးနီးယား ဥပေဒထဲမွာေတာ့ လူတဦးဟာ သူ႔မွာ AIDS ေရာဂါ သိလွ်က္နဲ႔ တျခားသူေတြကို ျပန္႔ ပြားေအာင္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ ခဲ့မယ္ဆုိရင္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၁၅ ႏွစ္ထိ က်ခံရႏုိင္ပါတယ္။

Here are a few reflections on health care in Myanmar by a visitor. Comments? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ My experience of Healthcare in Myanmar Emily C Posted on September 6, 2014    by daweisisters This is by no means an official or comprehensive guide to the healthcare system here, but just some of the information I’ve gathered in […]

I wonder if the NHL will allow anyone who is not a former NHL person to advise them. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Full-Time Senior Laboratory Advisor, Myanmar International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) The Senior Laboratory Advisor will be responsible for providing technical leadership to the project, including providing technical assistance and capacity building […]

အခု ရက္ရွည္ဖ်ားတာကို အရင္ဆံုး ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ကုသျပီး ေရာဂါ အေျဖရွာေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအတြက္ သမားေတာ္နဲ႔ ျပေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။ သမားေတာ္က ေသြးစစ္၊ ဆီးစစ္ တာေတြလုပ္ျပီးမွ က်န္တဲ့ HIV ရွိ/မရွိ ေသြးစစ္ဖို႔၊ ကာလသားေရာဂါ ရွိ/မရွိ ေသြးစစ္ဖို႔ကို လုပ္ေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။

The old Global Fund would not allow its money to be used for pilots. That appears to have changed. Using Global Fund resources to fund a pilot may yield little impact. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Malaria’s new frontline Samantha Michaels The Irrawaddy 20 October 20 2014 Seventeen-year-old Ma Win was exhausted, to put it mildly. During the […]

I’m not a big fan of Lives of the Saints articles or hagiography one. Ordinary people also live extraordinary lives. And social movements make more positive changes in the world than big men. But this article is as well written as most by Donald McNeil. And it has a Myanmar health angle. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ The […]

က်န္းမာေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အေနျဖင့္ HIV ေ၀ဒနာရွင္ တစ္သိန္း ႏွစ္ေသာင္းေက်ာ္ အနက္ ယခု ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္ အတြင္း ARV ေဆး၀ါးမ်ားကို ေ၀ဒနာရွင္ ခုနစ္ေသာင္း ေျခာက္ေထာင္ အတြက္သာ ေဆးေပးႏုိင္မည့္ အေနအထား ရွိေၾကာင္း အဆိုပါဌာန တာ၀န္ ရွိသူမ်ားထံမွ သိရသည္။

သုေတသနလုပ္ငန္း ႀကီးကိုေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ရန္ Global Fund မွေငြေၾကးကို အဓိက ကူညီ ပံ့ပိုးေပးမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး UNAIDS၊ WHO အပါအဝင္ အျခားေသာအဖြဲ႕ အစည္းမ်ားကလည္း နည္းပညာမ်ားကို ကူညီ ပံ့ပိုးေပးမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ အဆိုပါ သုေတသနလုပ္ငန္းႀကီးကို ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ အလႊာအသီးသီးမွ လူမ်ားပါဝင္မည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ျပည္တြင္း၊ ျပည္ပမွ အၾကံေပးပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ားလည္း ပါဝင္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

If it is a closely guarded secret then how is it that many people in Yangon are talking about it? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Health dept to be split under reform plan Shwe Yee Saw Myint Myanmar Times Monday, 20 October 2014 Health officials say a major organisational shakeup is looming within the Ministry of Health, with […]

“Myanmar has always had spirit festivals. Now we will also have smartphones. …” Interesting juxtaposition. There have been HIV prevention activities in Taung Pyone for years now. One hopes that that they stick. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Spirit festivals to smartphones: HIV prevention in Myanmar MSI 16 Oct 2014 Our team in Myanmar’s work with men who […]

“တနဂၤေႏြလုိ ေန႔မ်ိဳးမွာ ကၽြန္မဟာ တစ္အိမ္တက္ဆင္းသြားၿပီး အကူအညီေတာင္းပါတယ္။ ဘီစကြတ္ထုတ္ေလး တစ္ထုတ္ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ရရွိတာဟာ ကေလးေတြအတြက္ ထူးျခားမႈကုိ ျဖစ္ေစပါတယ္။ အစားအေသာက္အတြက္ ရန္ပံုေငြရရွိဖုိ႔ဟာ အၿမဲလုိလုိ ႀကီးမားတဲ့ စမ္းသပ္မႈႀကီးပါပဲ” ဟု သူမက နိဂံုးခ်ဳပ္အေနျဖင့္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

One assumes that this is an annual increase. The numbers are suspect, though. How can $5M provide for 40,000 people to be on ART? That is a little over a hundred dollars a person a year. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar confirms increasing domestic HIV funding by US$ 5 million UNAIDS 17 October 2014 Myanmar’s Minister for […]