The Irrawaddy has lost it It published a photo of the dargah site of Bahadur Shah Zafar the last moghul king of greater India. And labelled it a mosque. A squad is spraying it against viruses. This is the New Light of Irrawaddy, Islamophobia run riot. https://www.irrawaddy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mos-1.jpg There is also a nice photo of Charles […]

If anyone would like to receive protocols, policies, and procedures on responding to covid19 or coronavirus I have lots of them to guide my clinical and public health work. Email me at jamie.uhrig@gmail.com. Jamie

A hat tip to Frontier Myanmar for their daily translated press briefing. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ translated from Daily Eleven Calls to release political prisoners, and sick and elderly inmates, to prevent spread of coronavirus in prisons The government should promptly launch a plan to reduce the number of inmates in crowded prisons with weak healthcare as […]

Just read this excellent reporting on jails and prisons and covid19 coronavirus by Ye Mon at Frontier. https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/overcrowded-prisons-battle-covid-19-with-ginger-water-handbasins-as-authorities-consider-early I am a health care provider in jails. I know what I am talking about. Release prisoners. Develop medical isolation places. Now. Jamie

The Myanmar civil servant who is leaking the names of people living with Covid19 coronavirus on Facebook should be prosecuted. The #Myanmar civil servant who is leaking the names of people living with #covid19 #coronavirus on Facebook should be prosecuted. Thank you for blacking them out. https://t.co/RF2aIGdk9U — Jamie Uhrig (@himmoderator) March 28, 2020 Jamie

Peer reviewed research on HIV in Myanmar is still too rare. Here is a paper on treatment of adolescents in Myanmar. And it is not paywalled. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ High levels of viral repression, malnutrition and second-line ART use in adolescents living with HIV: a mixed methods study from Myanmar Jillian Murray, Katherine Whitehouse, Janet Ousley, […]

This is a well crafted press release by UNAIDS on the response to HIV among people who inject drugs in northern Myanmar. Did funders travel around the country when Covid19 coronavirus was about but undetected? There are services that are delivered or can be delivered to this key population that do not prevent HIV. Hepatitis […]

It is a waste of resources to retest people who initially test negative three more times. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Coronavirus-testing laboratory struggles with resource crunch Hein Thar Frontier Tuesday, March 24, 2020 With the confirmation of Myanmar’s first COVID-19 cases, the sole laboratory that can detect the virus is under pressure to expand testing, but staffing […]

Now that patients with Covid19 disease due to coronavirus have been detected, it is time to *double* the capacity for care that Myanmar has planned for. You will reach capacity much faster than you think. That is my experience in my workplace. Jamie

When Covid-19 or coronavirus begins to be detected in Myanmar it could easily overwhelm the health care system. Health care volunteers are going to be needed. Jails, prisons, and labour camps in the country will be hit especially hard. I work as a health care provider in jails so see the impact the virus can […]

Not on Twitter? It doesn’t matter. Read this Edith Mirante thread on epidemics in Myanmar. 1. This History Thread is about epidemics & pandemics + significant disease outbreaks in Burma (Myanmar.) Historical epidemiology incl. plague, smallpox, cholera, HIV/AIDS, influenza. Malaria not included as more endemic (locally present) than epidemic (& rates its own thread.) pic.twitter.com/CMhTBWExz2 […]

Here is a great new resource to track the progress of the Covid19 coronavirus epidemic in Myanmar. https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/445c1281-c6ea-45e4-9bc0-5d561c511354/page/I44CB Of course you can also look at the Ministry of Health and Sports. I expect a red 1 there any day now. http://mohs.gov.mm/Main/content/publication/2019-ncov Jamie