For people working in HIV these are always good resources to keep on your hard drive. Jamie +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar Integrated Biological and Behavioural Surveillance Survey and Population Size Estimates among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) 2017-2018. National AIDS Programme and Ministry of Health of Sports Myanmar (2019) This report presents the results of the 2017-18 […]

This article on tobacco smoking legislation is *remarkably* short on details. I hope Myanmar Times (or Frontier) has planned a follow up story. Will tobacco packaging be addressed and sales points regulated? Will tobacco excise taxes be increased? Will there be a mechanism so that they can be adjusted in future? Will tobacco used with […]

I am delighted when efforts to provide health care to all people in Myanmar are successful and recognised. And find the awarding of a prize for public health to this programme strange. Has anyone seen an evaluation of this programme? How many people with diabetes are being treated through it? And the WHO press release […]

Only a few days left until the deadline for this funding. https://www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/2019-RA1-MHF%20First%20Reserve%20Allocation-EXTENDED-02June2019.pdf Jamie

I would be interested in hearing your views about the WHO NCD portal. https://www.knowledge-action-portal.com/ Jamie

I hear too much about ‘Western diet’ and ‘Western lifestyle’ being responsible for the rise in obesity in developing countries. Here is a counter narrative. “Global increases in overweight/obesity appear to be driven more by domestic processes including economic development, urbanization and women’s empowerment, and are less clearly negatively impacted by external globalization processes suggesting […]

Children are eating prohibited food colours in NPT. The solution suggested is education. The solution I propose is enforcement of the prohibition by government authorities. What good is banning something if you continue to allow it to be sold and consumed? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Consumption of foods containing prohibited artificial colors among middle-school children in Nay […]

I don’t know if we are close to the end game with polio. The virus still has a hold in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And could be imported to Myanmar. So high coverage of polio vaccination in Myanmar will be needed. Here is the new strategy. http://polioeradication.org/news-post/the-polio-endgame-strategy-2019-2023/ Jamie

Do many people in Myanmar know how prisoners suffer poor physical and mental health during and after their incarceration? Jamie +++++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar’s political prisoners struggle with life after jail Victoria Milko Al Jazeera 21 May 2019 Yangon, Myanmar – In 2013, after spending more than eight years in jail for owning an independent newspaper during […]

A health technology assessment in Myanmar. “This work took place in a context where public health expenditure was not very high, although it has increased over the years. Furthermore, this program was dependent on an international donor and will not continue in its current form.” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-technology-assessment-in-health-care/article/from-design-to-evaluation-applications-of-health-technology-assessment-in-myanmar-and-lessons-for-low-or-lower-middleincome-countries/AC8F0B45857A36E3EC2FAD8FDDBEE516/core-reader Comments? Jamie

Are there any other UN messages from Myanmar on IDAHOT that I am missing? Join @UNFPA in protecting #RightsForAll #LGBTQI people in #Myanmar on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, and on all days. Human rights are inherent to all human beings, without distinction. #IDAHOT2019 #IDAHOBIT #ICPD25 @UNFPAasia pic.twitter.com/bBpc2fHgLy — UNFPA Myanmar (@UNFPAMMR) […]

Here is an interesting analysis of forces driving the obesity pandemic. https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-019-0457-y It is probably not globalization and the ‘Western diet’ or even ‘Western lifestyle’ that is driving the epidemic. It is economic development, urbanization and women’s empowerment. Hm? Jamie