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Myanmar social workers meet over HIV/AIDS
Published Date: June 21, 2010
By ucanews.com reporter, Mandalay

Catholic social workers are meeting in Mandalay this week to study methods of combating Myanmar’s burgeoning HIV-AIDS problem.

Twenty-two participants including four nuns and 18 laypeople gathered for the June 14-18 program organized by the Karuna Myanmar Social Services (KMSS) and British Caritas agency, CAFOD.

The program aimed to provide participants with an opportunity to share their HIV/AIDS ministry experiences and to learn from one another, KMSS HIV-AIDS project manager, Dr. Soe Moe Aung, told ucanews.com.

The program opened with group discussions on the strengths, weaknesses and challenges of existing prevention activities.

Representatives who had attended an Asia-Pacific Catholic HIV/AIDS Network meeting in Bangkok later shared the results of that conference.

On June 16, participants visited care centers operated by Mandalay-based NGOs and clinics.

“It’s great to hear the participants’ sharing on their HIV ministry in their respective dioceses,” another KMSS HIV-AIDS worker, Augusting Piang, told ucanews.com.

“The visits to the clinics and care centers gave us a lot of new ideas,” he said.

“We tried to gather all Karuna workers who are already working on HIV-AIDS prevention, awareness, and care programs, as well as those who are yet to start their ministry,” Piang continued.

“We are now preparing a Myanmar Catholic HIV/AIDS directory,” he added.

The Myanmar Catholics HIV/AIDS team was launched in December 2007.

According to UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 240,000 people in Myanmar live with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which usually leads to AIDS.

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