Last month in the Lancet: “16·6 million people with HIV/AIDS live in 23 countries where development assistance finances over 75% of the care and treatment; of these countries, 21 are in sub-Saharan Africa (the exceptions are Haiti and Myanmar).” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(19)30038-4/fulltext Government spending on HIV treatment in Myanmar is proportionately among the lowest in the world. […]

NOW is the time to tax vaping equipment before it gains a firm foothold in Myanmar. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/356561555100066200/pdf/E-Cigarettes-Use-and-Taxation.pdf Any action from tobacco smoking civil society groups or the Ministry of Health on this? Jamie

There are evidence-informed methods to decrease drug use, tobacco use, alcohol use, traffic ‘accidents’ and electronic game use. http://www.recoveryanswers.org/assets/FLYER-RISK-FACTORS-INFOGRAPHIC-4.pdf Sports is not one of them. What a waste of time and money. Jamie +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MOI Webportal Myanmar Coord meeting on promoting healthier lifestyles in youths held at Health & Sports Ministry A coordination meeting on […]

Look at page 44 of this HIV prevention scorecard. Myanmar is listed as having ‘insufficient data’ on programme coverage and condom use among sex workers and men who have sex with men. Data is sufficient for people who inject drugs. I call this bullshit. The data are there. Myanmar chooses not to collate and report […]

Is tuberculosis really a ‘death sentence’ for children living with HIV in Myanmar? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++++++ UH Team Part Of $6.2M Grant To Study HIV, TB In Kids Jim Simon U of Hawaii 1 May 2019 A global team led by researchers from the University of Hawaii Manoa, University of Pittsburgh and the University of Wisconsin, […]

I’ve been reading the minutes of the latest meeting of the MHSCC. https://www.myanmarhscc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/14th-M-HSCC-Meeting-Minutes-17-January-2019.pdf It reads as if NCDs didn’t exist. There is very little about them. Jamie

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are much healthier outside prison than in it. I hope that all political prisoners in Myanmar are freed. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D57uVBSU0AAHHmF?format=jpg&name=large Jamie

There is a lot of information in this article on diet in Myanmar. It is all mixed up in there. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with eating rice as a main source of calories. Agricultural policies made the the juntas and continued by the NLD government are going to be slow to change. As for […]

I have questions about any medical information site that reports itself to be ‘correct’. How is quality assurance done? Is there a board of technical experts? Any one person can never be always ‘correct’. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Health care just a click away Aung Phay Kyi Soe Myanmar Times 2 May 2019 Most people who have […]

You can click on Myanmar in the new Global Fund data explorer to find out all about grants for the three diseases. http://www.aidspan.org/node/4917 https://data.theglobalfund.org/home Jamie

Canada this summer? https://www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth/channels/event/extended-deadline-ncd-program-summer-visitorship-fund-295447 The deadline is soon. Jamie