HPV vaccination has been a *long* time coming to Myanmar. And it is going to take a long time to eliminate cervical cancer. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar starts cervical cancer vaccination in September Aung Phay Kyi Soe Myanmar Times 8 June 2020 The Ministry of Health and Sports plans to conduct the first nationwide vaccination campaign […]

Twenty-one day quarantine is too long. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Govt announces health measures for foreigners flying into Myanmar Kyaw Soe Htet Myanmar Times 2 June 2020 The Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment on COVID-19 issued a statement on May 28 relating to health measures to be taken for foreigners coming into Myanmar. Foreigners will […]

I would be interested in hearing what the “Sex Workers Organisation” is doing rather than hearing about Cho Htet’s fears with “drug addicts and alcoholics” as clients. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Sex work, three feet apart Phoe Wa Myanmar Times 5 June 2020 The “three-feet-apart disease” – a term some use to refer to the coronavirus – […]

Here is a recording of a webinar on prisons. A vital health issue for Myanmar. Jamie https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/5sEqBa_U2jhORJXi5kTEaqEBG6nLT6a8hyEZ-fNbyE9-K8oWebCazodRchb-Q7Wi https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/tJYoIer6qTg3SNeV5QSDAv4sW43oLK-s0nAfr_tezk-3U3NXZAevNbAWZpG-pKXZbKkaN7f8cH8h1_A?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=E2vM8LPCR2iXOng_TnnGuQ.1591004752898.bf5e5e8b602474499cc708710f6887c9&_x_zm_rhtaid=504

Here is the expected op ed in the official Global New Light of Myanmar. Not much on progress. Not much progress. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ World No Tobacco Day 2020 Aung Tun Global New Light of Myanmar May 31, 2020 Every year, on 31 May, WHO and Partners celebrate World No Tobacco Day. The theme of 2020 […]

How do they clean the outside of the gloves worn by the man in the glass booth between patients so that he does not transmit virus from one patient to another? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ ‘The disease still scares me’: A day with the COVID-19 testing team Hein Thar Frontier Sunday, May 31, 2020 Each morning, a […]

Here are a couple of pieces on Myanmar Youth Stars, a young men who have sex with men group. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar Youth Stars provides peer-led online sessions on HIV during COVID-19 Posted on May 19, 2020 Myanmar Youth Stars provides peer-led online sessions on HIV during COVID-19 Myanmar Youth Stars (MYS) have reported cases […]