World AIDS Day reporting is so full of crap that I can't shovel it fast enough.

The BBC should be ashamed of the low quality of reporting in this video. Improving roads almost always increases economic growth but rarely HIV. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30244390

The "truck drivers spreading AIDS" concept went out of fashion over a decade ago. There is no evidence that truck drivers crossing Myanmar borders have higher HIV incidence or prevalence than anyone else and there is no evidence that they engage in condomless sex any more or less than any other men. Pointing the finger at truck drivers is bad programming. And I can't find anything in the video about migrants that makes sense.

Why does ADB spend money on transport corridors? Because that is what ADB does for HIV. I've never been able to find any other reason.

Jamie

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World Aids Day: Tackling HIV in Myanmar

2 December 2014 Last updated at 09:29 GMT

Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, is opening its borders, with trade and tourism increasing at unprecedented levels.

Access has been helped by a surge in road building, connecting the once isolated country to the rest of south-east Asia.

But concern that increased openness makes Myanmar more vulnerable to HIV has prompted awareness campaigns targeted at its large migrant worker population, as Nick Wood reports.

This is part of a special season of Health Check films marking World Aids Day on 1 December.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30244390