I wonder if prevention of diabetes was among the topics covered. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Webinar creates awareness among Myanmar priests on health care Jimmy Sa Ei Taw RVA Pwo Karen News Service 15 November, 2021 Myanmar’ Pathein diocese organized a webinar on health care awareness for priests in the Ayeyarwaddy Region on November 13. Doctor Nant […]

I heard junta forces are making people remove their face masks. A systematic review of eight studies found mask wearing and handwashing led to similar reductions in relative risk of covid19 incidence. 0.5 Distancing not so much. https://bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-068302… https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEedJZAXsAUgcmu?format=jpg&name=900×900 Jamie

Here is an article on Covid19 in Myanmar that touches on most of the important issues. https://70b706f2.flowpaper.com/CommNovember2021/#page=22 Jamie

Here is the latest TB profile for Myanmar. It is going to show no progress next year. Sad. https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/tb_profiles/?_inputs_&entity_type=%22country%22&lan=%22EN%22&iso2=%22MM%22 Jamie

Here is a ‘humanitarian health’ scholarship at Hopkins. http://hopkinshumanitarianhealth.org/education/scholarships/open-scholarships/mph-tuition-scholarship-for-refugees/ Jamie

Good news that Danny Fenster has been released. I hope thousands more follow him out of the prison gates. Incarceration is bad for everyone’s health. Jamie

I missed this Covid denialist piece in Mizzima a few months back. Mizzima can do better. https://www.mizzima.com/article/pushback-official-covid-19-narrative-collapsing Jamie

One doesn’t hear much about Riuli these days. Sounds like people there are caught between two ways of responding to the Covid19 epidemics. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/05/1052811962/one-chinese-town-has-started-a-fiery-online-debate-about-chinas-zero-covid-polic

Eleven Myanmar has dropped this little bomb. Covid19 testing rate positivity is a crude and inaccurate measure of epidemic control in a situation where testing is limited. Say, for example, in Myanmar. Parroting junta press releases is not journalism. Not even for the Global New Light of Eleven. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar calls for communal efforts […]

“As global health professionals we fail our ethical imperative to do no harm if we remain passive observers of this situation.” Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Guest Column Myanmar’s Military Regime Has Weaponized Public Health FABIO SAINI, ROSALIA SCIORTINO AND MARC VAN DER PUTTEN The Irrawaddy 6 November 2021 Since the military overthrew the civilian government in Myanmar […]

Prisons in Myanmar would make Foucault proud. Panopticons all. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M2mS3pCTKQaF5Q0XsOCwVeDwqbiWYlKm/view?usp=sharing Jamie

Remember Kyannmar? Now may not be the time to start a new NCD initiative. Or maybe it is the best time. Applications now open for the second cycle of NCD Labs. https://www.knowledge-action-portal.com/en/ncd_lab Jamie