Is USAID really cutting all funding to Mae Tao clinic? http://maetaoclinic.org/wp-content/uploads/MTC_annual-report_2016.pdf If USAID provides much of the funding of the clinic this is a major blow. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Funding crisis causes cuts at Mae Tao Clinic Naw Noreen DVB 5 October 2017 The Mae Tao Clinic in the Thai border town of Mae Sot – […]

It was fourteen years ago today that Hla Htut Win died. It is in his memory that I write Health in Myanmar. Last year at this time I wrote that reading a copy of the New Light of Myanmar from that time was like looking into another world. https://www.google.co.th/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=16&ved=0ahUKEwjf68K3s8LPAhUMLI8KHWAECZs4ChAWCD4wBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibiblio.org%2Fobl%2Fdocs%2FNLM2003-10-18.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGXJVFSV89HOInWrnrVHQjF6X5SUg&bvm=bv.134495766,d.c2I&cad=rja Now I’m not so sure. Jamie

Dr Tun Nyunt Oo contradicts Suu Kyi’s assertion that HIV related deaths were halved in one year. She said: “within one year, deaths from HIV were halved” http://bit.ly/2xgpg9G. He says they were almost halved in six years. 14,000 deaths in 2010 to 8,000 death in 2016. Good to see the governmental financial contribution for the […]

My posting about methamphetamine and HIV incidence yesterday received a few responses. Emily Rowe gave me permission to post her comment. Quote: “Perhaps no scientific evidence but there is a documented extraordinary rise of ATS use among already at risk populations in the region (as I am sure you are very aware of). And as […]

I was just looking through this old article on methamphetamine in Myanmar and realised there was not a word about HIV in it. Noninjected methamphetamine use has not been shown to increase HIV incidence. There is limited evidence of an increase in HIV incidence among in gay men users in some countries but this has […]