The Spring Revolution is a year old today. Onward, Jamie

Crimes against humanity sounds like an apt description of these acts. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/nug-accuses-myanmar-junta-of-committing-crimes-against-humanity.html Jamie

The mass media is on to the number of Covid deaths in Myanmar. Case counts (remember HIV?) give only a partial picture so the total number of cases and deaths is undoubtedly much higher. Since there is no method to study excess mortality in the country, we will never know the ‘true’ number of deaths […]

Detainees’ testimonies are important in documenting torture. Prescriptions not so much. https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/fresh-evidence-emerges-of-brutal-torture-of-prisoners-inside-mandalay-palace Jamie

A paper on methadone client satisfaction in Myanmar. Jamie https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13011-021-00429-z

Information on Covid19 vaccination in Myanmar is hard to come by apart from reports of how many new case detections and jabs given by the military junta. These tell us little. On the other hand, this piece by John Liu of Myanmar Now tells us much. Why people in Myanmar don’t want the junta’s jabs […]

What do you think of this attempt at solidarity with health care providers in Myanmar? Jamie https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2022/1/4/Myanmar-doctors-coup-civil-disobedience-ethics-neutrality

“We had hopes for the future, and suddenly we lost that future.” Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar coup: The doctors and nurses defying the military Jonathan Head BBC 7 January 2022 A significant proportion of healthcare in Myanmar is now being delivered outside state hospitals, by doctors and nurses who oppose the military and are loyal to […]