Brilliant new Dohathan from Frontier Myanmar. https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/episode-53-fighting-the-baby-formula-myth Breast is best. Jamie

Here is a letter, posted with her permission, from Sister Martha Paul, who supports a CBO providing services to people living with HIV in Myanmar. Read every word, please. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Our group, Community Based Organization started providing ART treatment since 2005. We had to buy from Vimala company with over ks.40000/- per bottle which […]

There was a free medical camp in a border village in India. And people from Myanmar came. If there is no medical care for them provided by the Republic of the Union of Myanmar then they will go to another country for nonscientific care. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/66507899.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Jamie

How many dead on the Yangon-Mandalay highway in the second half of the year? https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/50-dead-accidents-yangon-mandalay-hwy-first-half-2018.html Jamie

The headline of this article credits community health workers for the decrease in malaria cases in parts of Myanmar. A close reading of the article reveals CHWs *as well as* “the distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets to vulnerable populations, and the improvement of access to artemesinin-based combination treatment” are responsible. Sounds reasonable to me. I […]

Now would be a good time for a followup article to this one published a year ago. Then we could see whether Yangon traffic is getting more or less deadly. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Yangon traffic has killed over 500 people in 2017 Coconuts Yangon 9 November 2017 Traffic accidents have killed more than 500 people in […]

The diagnosis of TB in people living with HIV is changing. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0r3jf4vgt0aoiiz/diagnosing%20tb%20in%20plwhiv.pdf?dl=0 Can Myanmar keep up? Jamie