Here is a preprint on virus infections associated with diarrhea among displaced Myanmar people. https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiab466/6377863 https://tinyurl.com/5yct8fju Jamie

Are these widely distributed? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ COVID-19 Home-based Care Guidelines in Ethnic Languages TNI 09 August 2021 Myanmar is currently facing a severe COVID-19 crisis, with high infection rates but limited access to medical aid. Reliable and comprehensive information on home-based care for COVID-19 suspected cases is also not sufficiently available, especially in ethnic nationality […]

I think that focusing on ‘lifestyle’ during the current crisis is useless. Jamie The risk factors for #NCDs in #Myanmar have changed since the junta took power early in the year. I'm not sure that adopting "healthy lifestyle behaviours" covers what is needed. https://t.co/L0aN81B7Yj — Jamie Uhrig (@himmoderator) September 23, 2021

Sasa says: “So many people died, we cannot even, and there is no way for us to, count the deaths.” If the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) can count arrests then surely a civil society organisation can count deaths. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar Faces COVID Vaccination Woes as Health System Under Threat Tommy Walker Voice […]

The healthcare crisis in Myanmar leaves many groups of people without care. Jamie https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmars-healthcare-crisis-leaves-expecting-mothers-stranded-and-at-risk

Solid paper. Titration of the dose of methadone is an important element in providing high quality treatment for people with opioid use disorder. In Myanmar or anywhere else. Jamie https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667118221000234?via%3Dihub

Why are journalists still quoting Khin Khin Gyi? Blaming the failure of the junta response to Covid-19 on the delta variant is disingenuous. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Delta variant brings elevated transmissibility and added concerns: health official Development Media Group 4 September 2021 Dr. Khin Khin Gyi, director of the Health Awareness Division of the Public Health […]

A remarkably balanced view of the response to Covid19 in Myanmar from Moe Thuzar at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/09/14/the-myanmar-militarys-politicisation-of-covid-19/ Jamie

Thirty years into the HIV pandemic we find that a major intervention for members of key populations may not be effective. What could have been done with all the funds that have been spent on drop in centres? https://www.aidsmap.com/news/sep-2021/large-review-finds-some-evidence-peer-support-beneficial-hiv-care Jamie

Doh Athan looks at the impact of the Covid19 epidemic in Myanmar on people living with HIV. Listen. Podcast: Myanmar’s HIV patients missing out on treatment Jamie

Here is a Q&A with a nurse working with MSF in Myanmar. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar: Q&A with a Canadian nurse responding to COVID-19 MSF 10 SEP John Pringle is a Canadian nurse and epidemiologist with a doctorate in public health. He has done five overseas assignments with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and is […]

This was just published. Evaluation of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a Community-delivered Integrated Malaria Elimination (CIME) model in Myanmar: protocol for an open stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/11/8/e050400.full.pdf Jamie