This is the internet equivalent of an infomercial. It looks like news but it is marketing JHPIEGO. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Jhpiego helps train next generation of midwives in Myanmar JHPIEGO 16 March 2016 In Myanmar, a new generation of skilled midwives is gearing up to protect the lives of their countrywomen. Each year, an estimated 3,700 […]

Thanks to several readers who sent copies of the draft national HIV strategic plan to me. I will not post it as I understand that the draft is still not a public document. If it is not finalised before the end of the month it should be made available for public comment. I have a […]

A big disappointment from Vienna. It appears that the War on Drugs is set to continue. Mechanisms put in place long ago are not about to change. Is voluntary enrollment in drug treatment more effective than mandatory treatment? http://www.ijdp.org/article/S0955-3959(15)00358-8/pdf No. But there is not much difference. Does it matter? No. Even if mandatory treatment was […]

Call me old fashioned. But ‘shake ups’ are not enough. In the years left out in the cold and in the long period between being elected and coming to power, has the NLD not developed a platform for reform or a plan for reform of the health sector? If not, why not? If so, then […]

Here are some of the thoughts of Dr Phyu Phu Tin Zaw on health care in Myanmar. It is HD video so may not be easily visible in Myanmar. What do readers think about her suggestion that the health care systems of Thailand and Cuba are what should be emulated? Jamie

It is refreshing to see research that produces unexpected findings. This study found that migrant women had slightly better reproductive health behavioural outcomes than nonmigrants. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Influence of internal migration on reproductive health in Myanmar: results from a recent cross-sectional survey May Sudhinaraset, Nadia Diamond-Smith, May Me Thet and Tin Aung BMC Public HealthBMC […]

I love the way that San San Myint dealt with sexual harassment on the job. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Contraception finds a platform – on taxis RJ VOGT and Nyein Ei Ei Htwe Thursday, 10 March 2016 To commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8, 15 female taxi drivers drove around Yangon offering women free rides in […]

Sorry to go on about this issue but it is important. If there has been a study associated with this article it is not easily available. There is no firm evidence that permethrin treated clothing prevents malaria. The only trial that showed a positive effect was done twenty years ago. Promotion of this method is […]

I know it is hard to watch video online in Myanmar. But here is an AJ video on the war against people who use drugs in a Southeast Asian nation that you must see. Wouldn’t it be good to see this kind of video journalism on the war against people who use drugs in Myanmar? […]

Yesterday I made a posting on the Health in Myanmar [him] blog http://hivinfo4mm.org/innovation-is-a-wonderful-thing/ and in the [him] 2497 email. I posted that I searched the internet for any peer reviewed scientific papers or systematic reviews to show that insecticide treated clothing is effective against mosquitoes or against malaria and found nothing. Thanks to a kind […]

Phyu Phyu Tin is quoted as saying that there is a law guaranteeing “equal rights to education” for children living with HIV. From next week, it will become part of her responsibility to enforce it. BTW, are 160,000 people living with HIV in Myanmar on treatment? This seems to be an inflated figure to me. […]

Innovation is a wonderful thing. Especially when the innovation is effective so that it benefits people other than the innovators and disseminators. So I searched the internet for any peer reviewed scientific papers or systematic reviews to show that insecticide treated clothing is effective against mosquitoes. Nothing. Effective to prevent malaria? Nothing. Is this a […]