The junta has many ways to murder people. “Teenage boy incarcerated in Insein Prison dies days before his release” https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/teenage-boy-incarcerated-in-insein-prison-dies-days-before-his-release Jamie
Malaria drug resistance
Remember when malaria ‘experts’ said that artemisinin resistant malaria needed to be contained in Asia or it would spread to Africa. It developed by itself in Africa. https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-022-04224-4 Jamie
News from MSF
Disastrous news about HIV and TB treatment by MSF in Myanmar. https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/MSF_GapsBriefingPaper_FinalUK_LowRes_Aug2022.pdf Jamie
Rapid inflation
All civil society organisations, local and international, are struggling to operate in the situation of rapid inflation in Myanmar. Jamie ******************** Myanmar charity groups struggle to operate amid rising fuel prices By RFA Burmese 2022.09.07 Charity groups operating in Myanmar’s former capital Yangon are being forced to cut back on their services amid soaring fuel […]
Please stop
Please stop reporting junta official Covid19 figures from Myanmar. They are misleading. Talk to people in cities and the countryside instead. Jamie https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/myanmar-covid-09122022051459.html
Way to donate?
Remember this group? Is there a way to donate to it from outside the country? Email me. Jamie *************** Healthcare on the run Frontier Myanmar 9 September 2022 One Saturday in October last year, a mobile medical team drove down the dusty roads of Kayah State, arriving at a camp for internally displaced people on […]
Outcomes of torture
This brave piece is difficult but necessary to read. The negative outcomes of torture including sexual assault on health and mental health are many. I reported on the military’s abuses, and then I became a victim Jamie
Do not mince
Have you seen this? Sandra Mon and Chris Beyrer do not mince words in it. “the NLD’s leaders, including now imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi, failed to denounce the violence against the Rohingya and, indeed, spoke in support of the military’s actions in the Hague in 2019” “The Rohingya genocide and lessons learned from […]
Another
Another winning article by Frontier Myanmar. Jamie ********************** Healthcare on the run Frontier Myanmar 9 September 2022 One Saturday in October last year, a mobile medical team drove down the dusty roads of Kayah State, arriving at a camp for internally displaced people on the western side of Demoso township. The medical team was made […]
Price increases
Mixagrip only treats the discomfort of upper respiratory tract infections and is not lifesaving. The price of amlodipine has doubled. I wish that RFA had reported on the price increases for some antibiotics. Jamie ************************ Price of medicines soars in Myanmar, leaving clinics short of supplies Antibiotics and drugs treating long-term illness have seen the […]
Mental health graphics and video
It is said that mental health graphics and videos are now available in seventeen languages spoken in Myanmar. How many Burmans speak one of them? S’gaw Karen, Moken, Daai Chin, Khong So, Likhy, Hakha, Karenni (Kayah), Kayan, Mon, Tedim (Zomi), East Pwo, Shan (Tai Lung), Ta-ang, Rakhine, Rohingya Lainong Naga and Jinghpaw mentalhealthmyanmar.com/languages HT Charlie […]
Promise
OK, I know it is the MMA funded by a drug company, but digital technology used to show promise in improving health in Myanmar. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(22)00068-3/fulltext Jamie

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