One doesn’t hear much about Riuli these days. Sounds like people there are caught between two ways of responding to the Covid19 epidemics. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/05/1052811962/one-chinese-town-has-started-a-fiery-online-debate-about-chinas-zero-covid-polic

Eleven Myanmar has dropped this little bomb. Covid19 testing rate positivity is a crude and inaccurate measure of epidemic control in a situation where testing is limited. Say, for example, in Myanmar. Parroting junta press releases is not journalism. Not even for the Global New Light of Eleven. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar calls for communal efforts […]

“As global health professionals we fail our ethical imperative to do no harm if we remain passive observers of this situation.” Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Guest Column Myanmar’s Military Regime Has Weaponized Public Health FABIO SAINI, ROSALIA SCIORTINO AND MARC VAN DER PUTTEN The Irrawaddy 6 November 2021 Since the military overthrew the civilian government in Myanmar […]

Prisons in Myanmar would make Foucault proud. Panopticons all. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M2mS3pCTKQaF5Q0XsOCwVeDwqbiWYlKm/view?usp=sharing Jamie

Remember Kyannmar? Now may not be the time to start a new NCD initiative. Or maybe it is the best time. Applications now open for the second cycle of NCD Labs. https://www.knowledge-action-portal.com/en/ncd_lab Jamie

Here is a short situational report on the dangers to healthcare professionals in Myanmar. It is published by Myanmar Doctors For Human Rights Network @DoctorsRights. Well done. https://mdhrn.org/short-situational-report-of-healthcare-in-myanmar-the-most-dangerous-place-in-the-world-for-healthcare-professional-9-month-review/ Jamie