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 […]

News of prison protests leaks out slowly. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Beaten ‘Silent Strike’ detainees in Yangon’s Insein Prison fail to get medical treatment Mizzima 16 December 2021 Wai Hin Soe, a political prisoner who protested during the “Silent Strike” on December 10 in the notorious Insein Prison, is one of a number of tortured detainees who […]

It is clear that Eleven Media ownership and management has decided to tow the line and spew out information fed to them by the military junta. It is valuable to know what the junta is saying to contradict it. Does Myanmar have the facilities to make vaccines? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar in collaboration with China to […]

Precoup research on HIV services for key populations. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Optimizing HIV Services for Key Populations in Public-Sector Clinics in Myanmar Ansley Lemons-Lyn1,* Khin N. Chan3 , William Reidy2,*, Wah Wah Myint3, , Elaine Abrams2, Zaw Zaw Aung4 Trista Bingham1, Mitesh Desai5 , Irene Benech1, , Ei Ei Khin5, Tharaphi Lin3, Halli Olsen2, Htun Nyunt […]

Ko Aung Kyaw demonstrated tremendous courage in the face of torture & death at the hands of the Myanmar junta. Is there a webspace where others who have been detained can safely upload their personal stories of detention or torture or both? https://nytimes.com/2021/12/17/world/asia/myanmar-journalist-kyaw-torture.html?smid=tw-share Jamie

Gotta love this headline: “A pilot programme in Myanmar provides both menstrual health support and economic opportunity” https://www.unfpa.org/news/pilot-programme-myanmar-provides-both-menstrual-health-support-and-economic-opportunity https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/pilot-programme-myanmar-provides-both-menstrual-health-support-and-economic Jamie

I can’t do any better than Andrew Nachemson’s critical analysis of Covid19 vaccine coverage as announced by the military junta. In a Twitter thread. I actually don’t think this is correct for two reasons. First (and most obviously), i don’t see why we should be counting single doses as vaccinated, especially when state media previously […]

One and a half million people are in this Viber group. They can’t all be wrong. https://invite.viber.com/?g2=AQBe%2FvLXbPNY0E2epk77FRZk2UrHQWi8CCTBoq90MZbvmfU47pFma19wj3OgY4IP&lang=en Jamie

The Gates-funded Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation IHME has produced and excellent page of graphics on health in Myanmar. https://www.healthdata.org/myanmar Jamie