ဖို-မ သဘာဝ တစ္ဦးႏွင့္တစ္ဦး နမ္း႐ႈပ္ ၾကရာဝယ္ ၁ဝ စကၠန္႔မွ် နမ္း႐ံုျဖင့္ တစ္ဦးႏွင့္ တစ္ဦး၏ ခံတြင္းမွ ဘက္တီးရီးယား သန္း ၈ဝ ခန္႔ အျပန္အလွန္ ကူးစက္ႏိုင္ၿပီး တစ္ရက္လွ်င္ အနည္းဆံုး ကိုးႀကိမ္ နမ္းေသာ ခ်စ္သူစံုတြဲ မ်ားတြင္ အျပန္အလွန္ ကူးစက္ၿပီးေနာက္ ခံတြင္း ဘက္တီးရီးယား အုပ္စုမ်ားလည္း တူသြား တတ္ေၾကာင္း နယ္သာလန္ ႏိုင္ငံမွ သုေတသီမ်ားက ေျပာျပသည္။

Here is more moderation on PrEP. What to do in Myanmar where universal access to antiretroviral treatment is not yet achieved? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Not the Latest Fad but a Drive for Change Roger Incidence Zero Nov 13, 2014 In a recent BMJ Blog Dr Rupert Whitaker cast a critical eye on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis […]

“We need to moderate the hype around PrEP” … Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ A pill for risky sex—another step on the road to a pill for bad housing Rupert Whitaker British Medical Journal 7 November 2014 Rupert_whitakerPrEP—or chemoprophylaxis against HIV infection, as the less sexy phrase goes—is about using chemicals to prevent yourself from contracting HIV during […]

အိတ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗီပိုးကို နည္းလမ္းသံုး မ်ိဳးႏွင့္ ကူးစက္ခံ ရႏိုင္ပါသည္။ မသန္႔ ရွင္းေသာ ေဆးထိုးအပ္ သံုးၿပီး ေသြးသြင္းျခင္း၊ အိတ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗီပိုး ကူးစက္ခံ ထားသူ ႏွင့္ အကာအကြယ္မဲ့ လိင္ဆက္ ဆံျခင္း၊ ပိုးရိွသည့္ မိခင္မွ တစ္ဆင့္ ကေလး ေမြးခ်ိန္ ႏွင့္ ႏို႔ခ်ိဳ တိုက္ေကြၽးျခင္းမွ ကူးစက္ ခံရႏိုင္သည္္။ ေဆးပညာရွင္ မ်ား၏ အဆိုအရ ဦးတည္ အုပ္ စု မ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ မူးယစ္ေဆး ထိုးသြင္းသူ၊ အမ်ိဳးသမီး လိင္ အလုပ္သမ ႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားခ်င္း လိင္ ဆက္ဆံသူမ်ား ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။

Now that the Global Fund is rebranding, perhaps we can do away with the abhorrent short form, mostly used on the subcontinent, of GFATM. It is the Global Fund. http://www.healthandcommunications.com/blog/2014/11/3/the-global-fund-forhealth Jamie

rethritis ဆီးလမ္းျပြန္အ၀ ေရာင္ျခင္း၊ = Cefixime 400 mg Orally once; Ciprofloxacin 500 mg Orally once; Ceftriaxone 250 mg IM once; Acute Interstitial Nephritis (Due to drugs such as Penicillins, Cephalosporins, Sulfonamides, NSAIDs, Rifampin, Phenytoin, Allopurinol and Infections ေဆးမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာက္ကပ္ေရာင္ျခင္းမ်ား၊ = Methylprednisolone 0.5-1 Gm/day x 1-4 days or Prednisolone 60 mg/day x 1-2 weeks; Acute Glomerulonephritis (Hypertension, Edema, urinary RBC and Albumin) = High-dose Steroids

Here are two massive UNAIDS reports released for World AIDS Day. The first one does not have a lot new in it. http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/UNAIDS_Gap_report_en.pdf The second outlines UNAIDS’ Fast Track initiative in which treatment comes before prevention. And prevention targets are not set. http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/JC2686_WAD2014report_en.pdf Good luck downloading them in Myanmar. Jamie

“Male sex workers are too shy and fear having their occupation exposed, so are reluctant to go to a clinic when infected with sexually transmitted diseases. Everyone says they are not infected with HIV/Aids, but no one wants to have their blood tested,” he said.

၂ဝ၁၂ အကုန္မွာ လူေပါင္း ၃၅.၃ သန္းမွာ HIV ပိုးရွိေနၾကတယ္။ ၂.၁ သန္းက လူငယ္လူရြယ္ေတြျဖစ္ၾကတယ္။ ၉.၇ သန္းဟာ ဆင္းရဲ (သို႔) မဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးတဲ့ေဒသေတြကျဖစ္ၾကျပီး antiretroviral therapy (ART) ေဆးရေနၾကတယ္။ အမွန္က ၁၉ သန္းေလာက္က ေဆးရေနသင့္ေပမဲ့ ေဆးမရၾကေသးဘူး။ ART ေဆးေၾကာင့္ HIV-positive ပိုးရွိေနသူေတြ အသက္ ပိုရွည္လာၾကတယ္။ ဒါ့ျပင္ သူတို႔ကေန ကူးစက္မွာကိုလဲ သက္သာေစတယ္။ ART ေဆးေတြဆိုတာ ေဆး ၃ မ်ိဳးပါမယ္။ တခ်ိဳ႕ေနရာေတြမွာ ပိုပါတယ္။

This is the third article I can remember on non gay-identified Shan men working in gay bars in Chiang Mai. It is probably the best one. HIV does not seem to be a big problem. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ The Life of Burmese Male Sex Workers in Chiang Mai Kyaw Kha The Irrawaddy Tuesday, November 18, 2014 […]

Want to ensure governments in Asia ignore HIV prevention in key populations? Set no targets! https://tinyurl.com/oahvqsz Jamie

Here is a regional overview of HIV as presented by UNAIDS’ Steve Kraus. There are no targets for prevention! http://t.co/A2By1ibzs4 Jamie