It is about time. This could be good news. Worldwide elimination of HPV and subsequent cervical cancer is the next step after polio. The tools for prevention in the form of vaccination and treatment in the form of early treatment of cervical precancer are available. What is the Myanmar goal? What percentage of girls will […]

A while back I posted the Global Fund Inspector General Report on Myanmar. https://www.theglobalfund.org/media/7559/oig_gf-oig-18-013_report_en.pdf?u=636692451480000000 And have received this comment: “I am rather dismayed at the few players who can join the game (page 8) – and would like to know how their organizations have expanded in Myanmar over this same time period compared to the […]

The Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan was published yesterday. Health begins on page 43. https://www.dropbox.com/s/jeahl9wjdjy4w1d/Myanmar%20Sustainable%20Development%20Plan%202018-2030%20%5BEN%5D.pdf?dl=0 … pic.twitter.com/oQAHdt0Ycw Jamie

Genocide is not healthy for anyone. “there is sufficient information to warrant the investigation and prosecution of senior officials in the Tatmadaw chain of command, so that a competent court can determine their liability for genocide” https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/FFM-Myanmar/A_HRC_39_64.pdf Jamie

Key populations have to stay at the core of the global HIV response. Myanmar and other Asian countries feature in this presentation that you can download and analyse. https://t.co/2hOaBBbEcg Jamie

I hear that earlier this week the Minister for Health and Sports stressed the importance of prison health as part of universal health coverage at the Launch of SOPs on Health Care in Prisons of Myanmar developed by the joint efforts of Health and Home Ministries, with support from UNODC, UNAIDS, WHO & 3MDGFund. Is […]

Want to watch a rare public appearance by Suu Kyi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_aI1gMLa3 or read it? https://www.facebook.com/z.y.zawhtay/posts/1831963726900707 Suu Kyi mentioned government spending on health in Myanmar has increased by 1.2%. Not enough to achieve SDG3. No other concrete data on health was presented. Jamie

There is a lot of HIV data related to Myanmar on pages 152-153 in the 2018 UNAIDS data book: http://bit.ly/2vKKMol Jamie

It is vital that stakeholders in the three diseases in Myanmar read at least pages 4, 5, and 6 in this Global Fund Office of the Inspector General report. https://www.theglobalfund.org/media/7559/oig_gf-oig-18-013_report_en.pdf?u=636692451480000000 The whole report is interesting but there are few surprises in it. Jamie

Here is some research on sex workers in Myanmar. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770521/pdf/hiv-5-223.pdf Nothing new, I think. Comments? Jamie

If you subscribe by email, you can see that I’ve pressed ‘Send’ over three thousand times for HIV Information for Myanmar, now Health in Myanmar. Feedback? Jamie

In the new UNAIDS global progress report, titled after a poem by a dead white man, 90% of people on antiretrovirals in Myanmar are reported to have achieved viral suppression. Is this true? Look at Page 73 in the report. http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/miles-to-go_en.pdf No, it is not true. http://aidsdatahub.org/sites/default/files/country_review/Myanmar_Country_Card_2018.pdf Only 38,861 people are virally suppressed out of […]