Don’t forget to keep an eye on Asia Catalyst. https://rights.health/ Jamie

Is the Defeat NCD Partnership still supporting the Myanmar junta? Funding? Human resources? Technical resources? Dr. Mynt Htwe, Minister of Health from Myanmar, presented a costed action plan to address #NCDs @WorldHealthSmt #defeatNCD #Myanmar #NCD #NCDs #COVID19 #WHS2020 #SDG #SDGs #SDG3 #SDG3.4 #globalhealth #UHC pic.twitter.com/WsdBOC1ir8 — The Defeat-NCD Partnership (@DefeatNCD) October 26, 2020 Jamie

Remember routine vitamin A for babies? As countries get richer it may not do any good. Myanmar? https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268507 Jamie

Here is a press release on an evaluation of nutrition programming in Rakhine. Not a positive one. Jamie https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/barriers-bottlenecks-and-solutions-nutrition-programming-rakhine-state-myanmar https://reliefweb.int/attachments/234290f9-7c1b-49a7-8a3b-23c8c9350500/Barriers_Bottlenecks_and_Solutions_for_Nutrition_Programming_in_Rakhine_State_Myanmar.pdf

There is a TB screening app for use in Myanmar. This is a preprint. https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/37779/accepted Can the junta see the raw data including names? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Usability of a mobile health application in tuberculosis screening and compliance to perform chest x-ray examination among presumptive cases detected by the app in Myanmar Kyaw Ko Ko Htet […]

Great question posed in this headline. Look at ASEAN’s record in HIV or any other infectious disease. There isn’t one. And Myanmar must be left out. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Can a Regional Public Health Emergency Centre Work for ASEAN? Melinda Martinus Fulcrum 27 May 2022 ASEAN’s plan to set up a regional public health emergency centre […]

People in Myanmar can talk about menstruation and menstrual hygiene. Here is an example. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Period pain: Women in Myanmar struggle with menstrual hygiene Emily Fishbein and Nu Nu Lusan 28 May 2022 A year after Myanmar erupted into civil war prompted by a February 2021 military coup, more than half a million people […]

Here is another article about increasing drug use among young people in Kachin including a prevalence figure. I have been reading articles like this for the last ten years. One article said that 80% of youth are “drug addicts”. Drug users and traders increase along Shan-Kachin states border https://businessinsider.com/why-theres-so-much-heroin-use-in-myitkyina-myanmar-2013-12?op=1 Is there any truth in this or […]

Does Roe vs Wade in the US have anything to do with abortion in Myanmar? Read on. In Myanmar, Lessons for Life After Roe v. Wade Jamie

Here is Progressive Voice on humanitarian aid and the junta. https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Joint-Statement-on-Covid-19-by-TPV-Statement-in-english-.pdf Jamie

There is almost nothing on the situation in Myanmar in this Lancet piece on disruption of health services in the Covid area. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lansea/article/PIIS2772-3682(22)00011-7/fulltext Jamie

A familiar theme when something goes wrong among health authorities in Myanmar: “Myanmar Now contacted Myint Myint Than regarding the complaint filed against her by the deputy directors, but she did not answer the calls.” Read on Jamie ++++++++++++++++ https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/public-health-officials-accuse-departments-junta-appointed-director-general-of-corruption