How long will it take WHO to advise us that test and treat is the way to go. Forget CD4 thresholds. The early results of the START study are out. http://i-base.info/breaking-news-what-do-the-start-results-mean-for-hiv-positive-people/ http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/Pages/START.aspx# There is today EVIDENCE of individual health benefit of starting antiretroviral treatment regardless of CD4 cell count. Onwards to test and treat. Jamie

“ကြ်န္မတို႔ကေတာ့ ေရာဂါန႔ဲ အသက္ရွင္ေနသူေတြပါ။ ကြ်န္မတို႔ လူႀကီးေတြကေတာ့ စိတ္ဓါတ္မက်ေတာ့ ပါဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြနဲ႔ ကေလးအရြယ္ေလးေတြကိုေတာ့ ၀ိုင္း၀န္ျပီး ကူညီေပးၾကပါ။ ပစ္မထား ၾကပါနဲ႔။ ART ဆိုတဲ့ ပိုးထိန္းေဆးကို ပံုမွန္ေသာက္သြားမယ္ဆိုရင္ သက္တန္းေစ့ေနနိုင္ပါၿပီ။’’ ဟု PLHIV မမ်ိဳးသူဇာက ေျပာသည္။

Here are a couple of recent articles about midwives in Myanmar. When was the last human resources for health assessment done in the country? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Improving Myanmar’s maternal health care and boosting midwifery skills are UNFPA priorities UNFPA Date: 26/05/2015 More than 500 midwives from the Yangon region, all dressed in their bright red […]