Increasing tobacco taxes is an easy win. Here is an excellent podcast addressing this issue: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/tobacco-epidemic-%E2%80%93-bill-savedoff Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar gears up to control tobacco products market According to a workshop meeting on taxation of cigarettes and tobacco products, Myanmar taxes manufacturers only based on products’ factory value, resulting in tax evasion and low tax rates […]

ကုိယ္ဝန္တားျခင္းနဲ႔ လိင္ကူးစက္ေရာဂါနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လာရင္ ၁၀၀% ထိေရာက္မႈရိွတဲ့ အခ်က္ တစ္ခုသာ ရိွပါတယ္။ အဲဒါ အေပ်ာ္အပါး လုိက္စားမႈ ေရွာင္ျခင္းပါပဲ။ လိင္ကိစၥ စိတ္အားထက္သန္သူ တစ္ကုိယ္ေရ တစ္ကာယ သမားေတြအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆုံး သေႏၶတားနည္းက ဘာျဖစ္မလဲ။

“The numbers say it all. We can not stop new HIV infections in gay men and other men who have sex with men if we stick to business as usual,” said Steve Kraus, Director of UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia and the Pacific. “PrEP answers an unmet need and expands the prevention options for people at substantial risk of HIV. We need to scale up PrEP as an additional effective HIV prevention intervention.”