Here is a paper on the private sector and TB control in Myanmar. The impact of PSI activities is clear. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Engagement of public and private medical facilities in tuberculosis care in Myanmar: contributions and trends over an eight-year period Thin Thin Nwe, Saw Saw, Le Le Win, Myo Myo Mon, Johan van Griensven, […]

Here is a brief on proposed changes to Myanmar’s drug law. Thanks to a few informants for their opinions on it. The proposed new law has mandatory community service which may include hard manual labour. It is not clear whether ‘treatment and rehabilitation’ is fully voluntary. And the Upper House did not approve exemption of […]

Heard of the commercial determinants of health? Here is a copyrighted milk industry infomercial. Dr Aye Thidar Than is the mouthpiece. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Milk consumption could decrease diabetes rate in Myanmar: Study Jim Cornall Dairy Reporter 21-Aug-2017 Consuming one glass of dairy milk a day can help prevent diabetes by 12% and hypertension by a […]

Same old same old in this analysis of the public health system in Myanmar. With the bright exception of UHC. The author is the same Elliot Brennan who is quoted in this piece. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/world/asia/myanmar-peace-negotiator-min-zaw-oo.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar’s Public Health system and policy: Improving but inequality still looms large Elliot Brennan teacircleoxford August 30, 2017 Elliot […]

I will be posting Health in Myanmar [him] postings on the new Health in Myanmar Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/healthinmyanmar/ Jamie

Sister Martha deserves credit for her work on HIV in Myanmar. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Sr. Martha Thwe has pioneered HIV/AIDS care in Myanmar Joyce Meyer GSR Today Aug. 14, 2017 Yangon, Myanmar In pioneering the care of HIV/AIDS patients in Myanmar more than 15 years ago, Sr. Martha Thwe of the Sisters of St. Joseph of […]