Don’t miss this online workshop on Tuesday. https://aappb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Concept-note-and-Invitatiion-Eng.pdf All prisoners must have all their human rights protected and promoted. Some members of key populations at greater risk of HIV need more attention to ensure this. Will the video workshop be archived so we can watch it later? Jamie

Nice article. “There is no discrimination”, though, is deceptive. Around the world there is increased risk of death among ethnic minorities (aka ‘race’ in Myanmar), those of male sex, and some members of oppressed religions. In Myanmar, too. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ COVID-19 lockdown in Myanmar exposes precarious position of LGBTQI population Aye Win UN Myanmar 13 […]

It appears from his final speech that Bogyoke might have thought that being a sex worker was a bad thing. Or sex workers were bad. https://www.irrawaddy.com/specials/on-this-day/day-general-aung-san-gave-final-speech.html It is just a job. Like a Major General. Jamie

Want to keep up with Covid19 coronavirus information in Myanmar. Here. https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/1YwwJEFyLqICwWjVWmS7PhNqaAFxl2XYp/page/oENVB Jamie

Why would anyone in Myanmar need a test to leave the country? What are these special flights? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar Issues COVID-19 Travel-Fit Certificates for Urgent Overseas Trips Zarni Mann Irrawaddy 10 July 2020 Mandalay – The Ministry of Health and Sports’ National Health Laboratory (NHL) in Yangon has started COVID-19 tests to provide travel-fit […]

It appears that all the health workers taking oropharyngeal swabs from elected representatives in Naypyitaw Myanmar are not wearing gloves. Look carefully at all of them in the photo. https://globalnewlightofmyanmar.com/union-health-minister-inspects-testing-of-mps-for-covid-19/ Jamie

Well done AFP for touching on this sensitive issue. Remember a UNICEF-funded HIV prevention pamphlet in the nineties that had a picture of two men in bed together? There was no pushback. No one reads pamphlets. But a school curriculum … Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar attitudes to sex undressed in textbook row AFP 8 July 2020 […]

Here is a programme to tune in to. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-is-myanmar-responding-to-covid-19-insights-from-policymaking-tickets-110853331298 Jamie

Always interesting to see the annual July report from UNAIDS. Myanmar is there. https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2020/global-aids-report#AIDS2020Virtual Myanmar has reported increased HIV self testing, more properly called self screening, since the beginning of the pandemic. It is on p21. Is there a public report to show that this occurs or is it only known through “Internal UNAIDS data”? […]

There have been over ten million people infected with the new coronavirus since the pandemic began. Perhaps many more. There has *never* been a scientifically documented case of reinfection. Anywhere. A testing error, or several testing errors, are responsible for this incident in Myanmar. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Recovered COVID-19 Patient in Myanmar Tests Positive Again Zaw […]

The Ministry of Health and Sports in Myanmar could do better with communications with the media. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Blocked numbers and no access: the challenges of reporting a pandemic Hein Thar Frontier 6 July 2020 It feels like the worst is over. We are coming out the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic – or […]

It is being reported that over one hundred and fifty people died in the jade mudslide near Pakant yesterday. Which department of the Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports is responsible for occupational health and safety? Meanwhile here is SuuKyi on Covid19 coronavirus: https://www.globalnewlightofmyanmar.com/lets-come-up-with-determined-efforts-to-win-the-war-against-covid-once-and-for-all-with-the-participation-of-everyone-state-counsellor/ Jamie