A few comments on this Xinhua piece. Why should we trust a Chinese news agency. Road traffic deaths are not accidents. They are preventable. We used to see regular road traffic deaths and injury figures published. What happened to them? Jamie ************************************************* 8 killed in road accident in central Myanmar Xinhua News Agency 30 October […]

There is no data here to show that suicides are increasing in Myanmar. “Suicides surge in post-coup Myanmar” Jamie **************************** Suicides surge in post-coup Myanmar

Frontier Myanmar continues its brave reporting. This piece on the difficult situation for sex workers in Yangon is an example. It is free of the usual cliches. The marks on Ma Sara’s arms are more likely due to cutting than domestic violence. Jamie ********************************************************* Yangon sex workers Moe Taw Dar Swe Frontier Myanmar 4 October […]

Viral load monitoring coverage, the third 90, in Myanmar has always been dismal. In here is an independent assessment of coverage. Viral load monitoring for people living with HIV in the era of test and treat: progress made and challenges ahead – a systematic review https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13504-2 Jamie

There are remarkably few figures here to know if Prep is being rolled out in Myanmar or not. Jamie ************************** PrEParing for the next chapter of HIV prevention in Myanmar UNAIDS 19 SEPTEMBER 2022 Two young men are sitting on a couch scrolling on their phones when May Oo, a famous makeup artist and lesbian, […]

The junta has many ways to murder people. “Teenage boy incarcerated in Insein Prison dies days before his release” https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/teenage-boy-incarcerated-in-insein-prison-dies-days-before-his-release Jamie

Remember when malaria ‘experts’ said that artemisinin resistant malaria needed to be contained in Asia or it would spread to Africa. It developed by itself in Africa. https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-022-04224-4 Jamie

Disastrous news about HIV and TB treatment by MSF in Myanmar. https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/MSF_GapsBriefingPaper_FinalUK_LowRes_Aug2022.pdf Jamie

All civil society organisations, local and international, are struggling to operate in the situation of rapid inflation in Myanmar. Jamie ******************** Myanmar charity groups struggle to operate amid rising fuel prices By RFA Burmese 2022.09.07 Charity groups operating in Myanmar’s former capital Yangon are being forced to cut back on their services amid soaring fuel […]

Please stop reporting junta official Covid19 figures from Myanmar. They are misleading. Talk to people in cities and the countryside instead. Jamie https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/myanmar-covid-09122022051459.html

Remember this group? Is there a way to donate to it from outside the country? Email me. Jamie *************** Healthcare on the run Frontier Myanmar 9 September 2022 One Saturday in October last year, a mobile medical team drove down the dusty roads of Kayah State, arriving at a camp for internally displaced people on […]

This brave piece is difficult but necessary to read. The negative outcomes of torture including sexual assault on health and mental health are many. I reported on the military’s abuses, and then I became a victim Jamie