Here is another article about increasing drug use among young people in Kachin including a prevalence figure. I have been reading articles like this for the last ten years. One article said that 80% of youth are “drug addicts”. Drug users and traders increase along Shan-Kachin states border https://businessinsider.com/why-theres-so-much-heroin-use-in-myitkyina-myanmar-2013-12?op=1 Is there any truth in this or […]

Does Roe vs Wade in the US have anything to do with abortion in Myanmar? Read on. In Myanmar, Lessons for Life After Roe v. Wade Jamie

Here is Progressive Voice on humanitarian aid and the junta. https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Joint-Statement-on-Covid-19-by-TPV-Statement-in-english-.pdf Jamie

There is almost nothing on the situation in Myanmar in this Lancet piece on disruption of health services in the Covid area. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(22)00011-7/fulltext Jamie

A familiar theme when something goes wrong among health authorities in Myanmar: “Myanmar Now contacted Myint Myint Than regarding the complaint filed against her by the deputy directors, but she did not answer the calls.” Read on Jamie ++++++++++++++++ https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/public-health-officials-accuse-departments-junta-appointed-director-general-of-corruption

The decrease in coverage of childhood vaccination is just one of the many negative outcomes of thee policies of the Myanmar junta. And it is easily measurable. Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet With people like Yin Yin Nwe in charge it is easy to see how this happens. Remember when she […]

This is one of Cardinal Bo’s most bizarre statements since his junta handshake Christmas message. Are there credible reports of organ trafficking to or from Myanmar? Is UNODC on to this? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-05/cardinal-bo-decries-human-trafficking-santa-marta-group.html

A job in Yangon … Jamie https://reliefweb.int/job/3847617/head-medical-statistics

That donation of almost-expired Covid vaccine from the Philippines may go through yet. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-planning-give-myanmar-5-million-sputnik-v-vaccines-2022-05-02/

Interesting model of providing pediatric care via Facebook telemedicine in Myanmar. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar paediatricians during military coup: we strike and survive FREE Thet Htar Shwe Sin Win1, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5567-6399Myint Me Me2, Wah Wah Winn3, Kaung Myat Kyaw4 Correspondence to Dr Myint Me Me, Department of Paediatrics, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, UK; myintmeme85@gmail.com http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-324073 Supplementary materialsRequest […]

This looks like an article from the eighties or nineties. “Raise awareness” about HIV? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Constraints on raising awareness despite high HIV infection rate in Mon State Than Lwin Times Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Despite the rise in HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection after the military takeover, raising awareness is under constraint, according to […]

I have questions. It appears that UNODC in Myanmar has just funded training in referral of people who have substance use problems. Is that right? Are the programmes that they refer people to voluntary or mandatory or both? Thanks, Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ UNODC supporting community-based treatment for people who use drugs in Kachin IDP camps and […]