One always expects absurdity from the authorities around Thingyan time. Looks like they are anti satyr as well as anti satire https://tinyurl.com/newt462. Happy Thingyan to everyone and Health in Myanmar will be back in a week. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Birth control pulled from shelves on police orders Shwe Yee Saw Myint and Toe Wai Aung Myanmar […]
Is the 3MDG Fund "UN help"?
Interesting that the support to the government by the 3MDG Fund is being framed as “UN help”. It is the bilateral donors to the 3MDG Fund who are helping. UN system organisations are mostly just aid recipients from the 3MDG Fund. It is easy to quantify the impact on health of more midwives. Will it […]
PEPFAR COP
It is said that PEPFAR Country Operational Plans are being drafted. And civil society is supposed to be involved. Civil society is supposed to have access to: What PEPFAR funded this year in COP2014 (which covers programs in 2015) The data country teams are using to make decisions about what to fund The targets and […]
What works to increase ART adherence
While on the subject of evidence, here is a review of high quality studies to see what works to increase ART adherence. Email hiv.information.for.myanmar@gmail.com if you want me to email you the paper. If CD4 thresholds for treatment initiation disappear then more people who have never felt sick are going to start treatment. Adherence is […]
AIDS ေရာဂါ အေၾကာင္း (၅)
AIDS အေစာပိုင္း လကၡဏာ ရွိသူေတြမွာ စမ္းေတာ့ ခုခံကာကြယ္မႈ တိုးတက္လာေတာ့ ေတြ႕ရတယ္လို႔ ဆိုတယ္။ တစ္မ်ိဳးကေတာ့ HIV ဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ ေပးသြင္းလိုက္တဲ့ ေမ်ာက္ေတြမွာ ကာကြယ္ေဆး (ဗက္စင္း) ေၾကာင့္ AIDS ေရာဂါကုိ လေပါင္း ၃၀ တိတိ ျဖစ္မလာေအာင္ တားဆီးႏုိင္ခဲ့တယ္ ဆိုတယ္။ ပုိလီယို ဗက္စင္းလို ပါးစပ္မွ စားလို႔ ရတဲ့ ဗက္စင္းမ်ိဳးကုိလည္း ထုတ္လုပ္ဖို႔ ၾကိဳးစားေနၾကတယ္။
New eligibility for health care benefits in Thailand
“Migrants from four countries eligible for health benefits” boasts the URL line. A mindful reader asks: “But will they actually be able to access it?” Stay tuned. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ The Nation April 6, 2015 1:00 am Workers from Myanmar, laos, Cambodia and Vietnam now get better coverage MIGRANT workers from Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam […]
AIDS ေရာဂါ အေၾကာင္း (၄)
AZT က ၁၉၆၀ ေလာက္ကတည္းက ေပၚေနတဲ့ ေဆးပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္လည္း ခ်က္ခ်င္းသံုးလို႔ ရတာ။ အဲဒီတုန္းက ကင္ဆာအတြက္ သံုးဖို႔ရာ၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ သိပ္မေအာင္ျမင္လို႔ ေခ်ာင္းထိုးထားျခင္း ခံခဲ့ရတယ္။ ဒီေဆးက ငါး ၂ မ်ိဳးျဖစ္တဲ့ Herring (ဟဲရင္း) နဲ႔ Salmon (ဆာမြန္) ရဲ႕ “ဖိုမ်ိဳးပစၥည္း” (Sperm – စပန္း) က ထုတ္ယူရတဲ့ (Thymidine – သိုင္းမီဒင္း) ဆိုတဲ့ ပစၥည္းျဖစ္တယ္။
AIDS ေရာဂါ အေၾကာင္း (၃)
ဗိုင္းရပ္ကုိ ေသေအာင္ မသတ္ႏုိင္ရင္ ဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ မ်ိဳးမပြားႏိုင္ေအာင္ လုပ္မယ္ဆိုၿပီး အဲဒီေဆးမ်ိဳးကုိ ရွာေနၾကတယ္။ ေတြ႕ရင္ေတာ့ ဒီေဆးကုိ AIDS လူနာရွင္ေတြဟာ ရာသက္ပန္ စားသြားရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေဆးကုိ ျဖတ္လိုက္ရင္ ပိုးက ျပန္ပြားမွာကုိး။ ခက္တာက အခု စမ္းၾကည့္ေနတဲ့ ဒီလိုေဆးေတြဟာ ျပင္းလြန္းေတာ့ မလိုလားအပ္တဲ့ အဆိပ္တက္မႈေတြ ျဖစ္ၾကတယ္။
Marriage Advice (3) အိမ္ေထာင္ေရးနဲ႔ ကူးစက္ေရာဂါ
ေတြ႕ကရာ လူကေနေမးလို႔ ေျဖတာနဲ႔ ေဆးကုေပးတဲ့ ဆရာဝန္ကို ေျဖရတာ မတူပါ။ ေဆးရံုေတြ၊ ေဆးခန္းေတြနဲ႔ သားဖြါးခန္းေတြမွာ ေဆးစစ္တာကိုလည္း အျပည့္အစံု မလုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ရင္ေသြးကေနတဆင့္ ကူးစက္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ေရာဂါေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ HIV/AIDS ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ အသည္းေရာင္ (ဘီ) နဲ႔ (စီ) ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ရွိေနတာကို ဆရာဝန္ ဆရာမေတြကို ထုတ္ေျပာဘို႔ေတာ့ လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။

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