Mandela’s words ring in my head. “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.” Read this report from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) @aappb. Jamie *********************************** The flow of injustice outlined […]

There are continuing attacks on health care providers and facilities in Myanmar. Jamie https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/attacks-health-care-myanmar-14-27-june-2023

I’ve been waiting for this insightful article on gender justice and transgender care in Myanmar for years. Jamie https://www.tni.org/en/article/rethinking-gender-justice

File this story under ‘fundraising’. Jamie ************************************ Medical Association Issues Urgent Global Appeal to Deliver Healthcare to Myanmar The Irrawaddy 27 June 2023 The Burma Medical Association (BMA) has called on governments and international organizations to urgently provide cross-border assistance, humanitarian aid and healthcare to people in need in Myanmar. In a statement, it called […]

It doesn’t take a medical degree to see that “Some 22 per cent of all children in Myanmar have not been vaccinated at all” is threatening the health and lives of children and adults in the country. UNICEF focuses on the countries with the most ‘zero-dose’ children. MM is one of them. Jamie ************************ Millions […]

Here is a Myanmar country fact sheet on HIV. Produced by WHO. There is even less data on progress towards 95-95-95 than there used to be. Jamie https://www.aidsdatahub.org/sites/default/files/resource/myanmar-country-fact-sheet.pdf

WTFuckery @newhumanitarian @RebeccaLRoot. This article on health in Myanmar does not have any Myanmar informants or quotes from Myanmar people. Instead, we get this from Nosten @smru. “Dr. François Nosten, a professor of tropical medicine and director of SMRU, cautioned that the rise in malaria cases in Myanmar cannot be conclusively linked to the conflict” […]

Here’s the first health sitrep on the situation after Cyclone Mocha. Jamie https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/health-cluster-sitrep-no-1-tropical-cyclone-mocha-19-may-2023

Chris Beyrer is right to highlight the ongoing crisis in public health in Myanmar caused by the junta. Both vivax & falciparum malaria are increasing in Myanmar and subsequently in Thailand. USAID money is nice, but where is the RAI project funded by the GlobalFund? Jamie ************************* Antibiotic Resistant Malaria Is Up 1,000 Percent in […]

Burmeton is a local trade name for chlorpheniramine, an antistamine that may have an effect on a runny nose and make a detainee sleepy. Poor health care is a common problem in all detention facilities in Myanmar. Ask any former detainee who makes it out of a prison alive. Jamie ******************************* Most Prisoners lack medical […]

As Health in Myanmar [him] moderator, I am not a journalist or a reporter. But I amplify the voices of journalists and sometimes report. And I interpret ‘health’ broadly. This brave and much-needed piece gave me pause. I hope you will read it. Jamie https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/finding-room-for-compassion-in-myanmars-toxic-media-space/

Well it is all good news about malaria here: https://endingmalaria.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ending_Malaria_Report_v10.pdf But it is not. Malaria incidence in Myanmar is increasing. https://t.co/m2quUkjM0X And we know why. Jamie