I posted this on [him] a couple days ago. https://www.facebook.com/SmokeFreeCitiesShan/posts/1082762868503445 And a reader informed me that there were people smoking at the Taunggyi balloon festival. I don’t know if smoking is prohibited only at this event or at all sporting events in the state. Can any readers inform me? How is the ban enforced? Jamie

I have been unable to find evidence that IOM HIV treatment programmes are being turned over to the government. Are any other UN system organisations directly executing or implementing HIV testing/treatment programmes in Myanmar? Almost all migration is ‘unmanaged’. And migration by itself does not increase or decrease vulnerability to HIV. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Well-Managed Migration […]

I just saw this FB post this morning. https://www.facebook.com/SmokeFreeCitiesShan/posts/1082762868503445 National or countries at federal or central level are not the only governments that can take action on public health. States, divisions, provinces, and cities can do it. Here is an example from Shan State. I don’t know if smoking is prohibited only at this event […]

Here is an article on the health of the Rohingya people in the Lancet. https://www.dropbox.com/s/p5o5mmgq02orj5i/lancet%20rohingya.pdf?dl=0 http://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00646-2/fulltext Please download and read it. Jamie

Promises mean little. Action means a lot. The drug policy working group has still not made their deliberations public. The draft drug law is not yet published. There is little concrete information about the new drug treatment centres for us to see. Jamie **************************** Small shifts in Myanmar’s war on drugs Nick Baker Myanmar Times […]