If you want to understand where UNAIDS is going in the next few years then this is a good place to start. https://www.unaids.org/en/whoweare/pcb/45 Jamie

Myanmar UHC coverage is low. You can see from the map in this review. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30463-2/fulltext Jamie

In the past two weeks there have been several major health research conferences in Myanmar. If you were attending this one or the Kirby one or any other one, you have access to the research papers. If you did not attend, you have no access. I think the Health minister is proposing a data bank […]

Here is a Myanmar HIV country card. https://aidsdatahub.org/sites/default/files/country_review/myanmar-country-card-nov-2019.pdf Still no international standard 909090 cascade diagram. Jamie

There are two issues here. One is drug trafficking. The other is used needles and syringe. A syring collection festival is a great idea. Who set the fire near Mi Mi Gyi’s house? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Sagaing Region government invited to hold festival to collect syringes discarded by drug usesrs in Kawlin Township Daily Eleven Reported […]

This is good news. Though prison health reform was not part of the NLD election platform or manifesto, it is said that it was part of the first hundred days mandate. Change in prison systems is slow. And planning is faster than implementation. There are very simple actions that could be taken to reduce overcrowding. […]

This is a great resource for everyone concerned about health in Myanmar. https://www.myanmarhrc.com/programme/ Unfortunately there are few links to the papers. Jamie

There are *three* elements of the global strategy to eliminate cervical cancer. HPV vaccination may start in Myanmar this year. It may not. Then there is screening and treatment. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Join the fight against cervical cancer Thel Khin Hla Myanmar Times 10 January 2020 LADIES! Have you made any health related New Year resolutions […]

Want to work at A2H? Here’s your chance. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oren-ginzburg-3b84551_jobs-at-unops-activity-6621108010376880128-h7D4/ Jamie

It has been over fifteen years since I first heard that Myanmar was considering the use of buprenorphine. Bupe can be delivered as a fast dissolving tablet or film. It can simply be begun as an outpatient. Dosage regulation is dead easy. It produces almost no ‘high’. If it is combined with naloxone the tablets […]

As usual, Eleven Media gets it facts wrong. The article does not tell us anything about the survey so we can even do a fact check. The true prevalence of gestational diabetes in Myanmar is twelve or thirteen per cent. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ 20%-40% of pregnant women in Myanmar suffer from diabetes Nyein Nyein Thu Eleven […]

FFS. Here’s the People’s Health Foundation again. What possible evidence does Thein Swe have that if nicotime vaping is not controlled, “diseases like cancer and heart diseases will double, I guess”? Has prohibition ever worked to decrease harm from a drug? Regulate nicotine vaping. Don’t prohibit it. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar health experts seek ban on […]