A response to my rant on failed malaria containment in Myanmar. It is from Tim France and posted with his permission. Will India, with all its resources, be able to stop artemisinin-resistant malaria? Will the people of Myanmar need to accept control and containment because elimination does not appear to be feasible at present in […]

The premise of artemisinin resistance containment, if I understand it correctly, is to stop artemisinin resistance from ‘spreading to India and then Africa’. I have pointed out before that no one knows whether this is the route taken by previous resistance to antimalarials. Health scientists studying artemisinin resistance have known for months that resistance is […]

မူးယစ္ေဆးျဖတ္တာကလည္း မလြယ္ဘူးေပါ့။ အဲဒီၾကားထဲမွာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔က ပညာေပးလုပ္ငန္းေတြ လုပ္ၿပီး ေဆးထိုးအပ္ေတြကို ဒီကြန္ဒုံးေတြ လုပ္ခဲ့သလိုေပါ့။ ျပည့္တန္ဆာေတြမွာ ကြန္ဒံုး ေတြေဝခဲ့သလိုပဲ။ အႏၲရာယ္ေတြ တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔ တစ္ေယာက္ မေရာက္သြား ေအာင္ေပါ့။ ေဆးထိုးအပ္ကေန HIVကူးတဲ့ႏႈန္းက တအားျမန္တယ္။

သားအိမ္ေခါင္း ကင္ဆာသည္ လူေသမႈ အမ်ားဆံုး အမ်ဳိးသမီး ကင္ဆာေရာဂါမ်ားတြင္ နံပါတ္ ေလး ေနရာတြင္ရွိၿပီး တစ္ႏွစ္လွ်င္ သားအိမ္ေခါင္းကင္ဆာ ေဝဒနာ ခံစားရသူ ၇ဝဝဝ နီးပါး ေတြ႕ရွိေၾကာင္း၊ သားအိမ္ေခါင္း ကင္ဆာသည္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားတြင္ ဒုတိယ အမ်ားဆံုး ကင္ဆာေရာဂါ ျဖစ္ၿပီး ရင္သား ကင္ဆာသည္ အျဖစ္အမ်ားဆံုး ကင္ဆာေရာဂါ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း က်န္းမာေရး ဦးစီးဌာနမွ သိရသည္။

The International AIDS Alliance has responded to the posting in which I wondered where the young people who use drugs were. Posted with permission of the commenter: “We recognise that young people who use drugs are also most affected by HIV in Myanmar, but it wasn’t something any of  the 12 participants decided to focus […]

Interesting photos in the gallery. Nothing about young people who inject drugs. Or is there? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar Youth Stars Alliance undated “We want freedom, because we don’t have any freedom yet,” says a young woman, one of the Myanmar Youth Stars; a group of young people under 25, who represent people most affected by […]

HIV ပိုး ကူးစက္ခံရသူမ်ား ေအအာရ္တီေဆးရရန္ ေရွ႕ထြက္ လာျပီး က်န္းမာေရးဝန္ေဆာင္မႈ မ်ားခံယူရန္ အတြက္ အမွန္တကယ္ လိုအပ္ေနသည့္ အခန္းက႑မ်ား ႏွင့္ တာဝန္မ်ားအတြက္ တာဝန္ခံ ႏိုင္မႈႏွင့္ အျခားေသာ ဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးေရး အပိုင္းမ်ားသို႔ တိုးခ်ဲ႕လုပ္ကိုင္မႈ မ်ားကို လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိုင္ရန္ တိုက္တြန္း ေရးသား လိုက္ရပါသည္။

How many participants at this training were young female sex workers, young men who have sex with men, young people who inject drugs, young transgenders, and young people living with HIV? How many were between ten and eighteen years old? And how many were not included in the above but were people who support them? […]

တကယ္ေတာ့ ကိုယ္ ေပ်ာ္ပါးခဲ့ရတဲ့ ခဏတာအခ်ိန္ေလးကို မိသားစုဘ၀နဲ႔ လဲခဲ့ရသလို ကိုယ္တစ္ေယာက္္ရဲ႕ မွားယြင္းမႈကို အားလံုးက ေပးဆပ္ခဲ့ရတာပါ။ AIDS ေရာဂါကို ေၾကာက္ရြံ႕စရာ ေရာဂါႀကီးတစ္ခု၊ ရြံရွာဖြယ္ ေရာဂါႀကီးတစ္ခုအျဖစ္ ႐ႈျမင္ေနဆဲျဖစ္တဲ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔ လူ႔အသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းေၾကာင့္လည္း ဒီလို မိသားစုပ်က္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ဘ၀ေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးပါ။ တကယ့္ တကယ္ေတာ့ အစာအိမ္ေရာဂါလည္း ေရာဂါပါပဲ။

The English language part of HIV Information for Myanmar [him] is morphing into Health in Myanmar [him]. You will see the same great content on HIV and there will be new content on other health issues. The short form [him] remains the same. And the Burmese language part of HIV Information for Myanmar will continue […]

Health in Myanmar [him] has often reported on digital communication for health in Myanmar. Here are some Phandeeyar events that you may be interested in. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Storytelling with Data & Infographics + 3 Day Design Thinking Workshop Part of Phandeeyar’s mission is to help different parts of Myanmar society harness the potential of technology. […]

Marie Lall writes “For Myanmar today, the issue is not only the drug trade and how this fuels ethnic conflict, but also the increase in local drug use and the HIV epidemic, especially in the border areas”. There is ambiguity in this statement but it appears that she is saying that the drug trade fuels […]