What social media or journalism platforms can released prisoners use to widely share their stories of conditions inside Myanmar prisons without putting themselves at risk of reimprisonment or death? Jamie
Landmines
Landmines are a threat to public health. They do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. They will kill and maim Myanmar people years and decades after the junta is defeated. https://irrawaddy.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=92bb20b77cd3137f151c8b4a9&id=e1839a8878&e=2f10d3168e Jamie
Malaria risk factors
Along the Myanmar China border, “risk factors associated with malaria infection are overnight staying out of home, at low altitude areas, proximity to streamlets and lack of knowledge of malaria transmission.” https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-022-04312-5 Jamie
Gender sensitive
Read this “Understanding Civil Society Organizations’ Responses to Covid-19 in Myanmar – How well the Responses are Gender Sensitive?” https://icird7.soc.cmu.ac.th/proceeding-68/ Jamie
Diabetes day
Today is World Diabetes Day. Great video by MSF. Does avoidance of salty foods have any role in diabetes prevention or care? I think not. Jamie ************************************************* Diabetes is a chronic non-communicable disease and people living with it need to receive proper treatment to prevent it from getting worse. In Myanmar, more than two million […]
Drowned
“The mother of a four-year-old drowned in the Moei River while trying to cross back to Myanmar to avoid the Thai police.” Jamie ****************************************** Striking Medics Blame Myanmar Junta for Nurse Death The Irrawaddy 11 October 2022 The Civil Disobedience Movement Medical Network of the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) has condemned Myanmar’s junta after […]
ORL
This new Organization Registration Law makes implementation next to impossible for many organisations in Myanmar. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15zDuM12LmOiTO9ICk1cYXxQVMrb1yNxN/view?usp=share_link It will simply be used to oppress civil society. Jamie
New building
I guess the Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development in Rakhine is no longer controlled by Win Myat Aye. It provides the funding for Asia World Foundation. I think. Jamie ************************************ Handover of National Centre for Pandemic and Infection Diseases in Myanmar; Advanced Facility Built with Donation from AW Foundation StreetInsider November 5, […]
More on happy water
Thanks to a loyal reader for sending me this piece about happy water. It ranks with Vietnamese ‘Black Water’ and Georgian ‘Krokodil’ as the strangest hits I’ve seen. Jamie ****************************************** What’s in ‘Happy Water,’ a Synthetic Drug Cocktail Being Taken by Partygoers? Consumption of the psychoactive beverage, which sees MDMA, meth, ketamine and diazepam dissolved […]
Happy water and more
This is the first time I have heard of happy water. I’m not up to date. Jamie ******************* Party goers dance in a private room in a KTV, where drugs are readily available. (Supplied) ‘They use it to find some relief’: drug use on the rise OCTOBER 31, 2022 An absence of policing, increased narcotics […]
More doctors sacked
“A doctor who has been in hiding for more than a year after the junta issued a warrant for her arrest on charges of “incitement” told RFA that she and others on the list have no intention of ending their commitment to the anti-coup movement, regardless of the suspension of their licenses.” Jamie ************************** More […]
Go figurer
The new HURFORM report says 40% of youth in Ye Township, Mon, and Yebyu Township, Tenasserim, have succumbed to drug abuse. I don’t know what drug abuse is and there is no evidence presented for this figure in the report. https://nd-burma.org/the-junta-wiped-us-out-again/ Jamie

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