In this article from Frontier is this quote: “Several employees at various departments of the ministry declined to discuss the health warnings plan when contacted by Frontier.” Less than a week later it was announced: http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/19246-cigarette-packs-to-carry-graphic-health-warnings.html Did the interest by the journalist speed up the announcement? Were people in the Ministry just being their old […]

This article illustrates some of the issues emerging in the world of noncommunicable diseases: 1) Mental illness and sudden conditions like injuries are excluded from the list of diseases. 2) Professor Ko Ko says that risk behaviour modification could prevent diabetes without mentioning outside forces. 3) There are ‘human resources for health’ issues. Do doctors […]

There are false hepatitis C medicines circulating in Southeast Asia. Falsified Hepatitis C medicines circulating in South East Asia  http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/drugalerts/en/ And some have been found in Myanmar. Look at the photos and beware. Jamie

OK, I understand that Mark Dybul the Executive Director of the Global Fund is an HIV guy and cannot know everything about the three diseases his organisation funds. But he reveals in this video from the ANU, beginning at 32:50, that he lacks understanding of mosquito borne diseases. He says that the same mosquito causes […]

Where is the accounting for the eight million dollars a year that the Myanmar government is said to spend on HIV? Download the latest report on discrimination against people living with HIV by health care providers at http://asiacatalyst.org/blog/2016/02/28/5442/#more-5442. Suu Kyi says nothing though she is the UNAIDS Global Advocate for Zero Discrimination. How will UNAIDS […]