30
Sep

Many ways

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

29
Sep

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

22
Sep

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

21
Sep

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 […]

20
Sep

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

19
Sep

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 […]

16
Sep

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

15
Sep

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 […]

13
Sep

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 […]

12
Sep

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 […]

9
Sep

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 […]

8
Sep

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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