The decrease in coverage of childhood vaccination is just one of the many negative outcomes of thee policies of the Myanmar junta. And it is easily measurable. Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet With people like Yin Yin Nwe in charge it is easy to see how this happens. Remember when she […]

This is one of Cardinal Bo’s most bizarre statements since his junta handshake Christmas message. Are there credible reports of organ trafficking to or from Myanmar? Is UNODC on to this? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-05/cardinal-bo-decries-human-trafficking-santa-marta-group.html

A job in Yangon … Jamie https://reliefweb.int/job/3847617/head-medical-statistics

That donation of almost-expired Covid vaccine from the Philippines may go through yet. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-planning-give-myanmar-5-million-sputnik-v-vaccines-2022-05-02/

Interesting model of providing pediatric care via Facebook telemedicine in Myanmar. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Myanmar paediatricians during military coup: we strike and survive FREE Thet Htar Shwe Sin Win1, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5567-6399Myint Me Me2, Wah Wah Winn3, Kaung Myat Kyaw4 Correspondence to Dr Myint Me Me, Department of Paediatrics, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, UK; myintmeme85@gmail.com http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-324073 Supplementary materialsRequest […]

This looks like an article from the eighties or nineties. “Raise awareness” about HIV? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Constraints on raising awareness despite high HIV infection rate in Mon State Than Lwin Times Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Despite the rise in HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection after the military takeover, raising awareness is under constraint, according to […]

I have questions. It appears that UNODC in Myanmar has just funded training in referral of people who have substance use problems. Is that right? Are the programmes that they refer people to voluntary or mandatory or both? Thanks, Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ UNODC supporting community-based treatment for people who use drugs in Kachin IDP camps and […]

In case you missed this movie about tuberculosis in Myanmar. I did. Under the Mask: A Film on Tuberculosis at the Thai-Myanmar Border https://t.co/wfosfViSA5 — NDMPapers (@NDM_Papers) May 9, 2022 Jamie

Two health care providers left the military … Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/military-nurse-05042022172947.html

Is any of this news on Myancopharm true? Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40015364 Myanmar starts administering locally produced Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines Xinhua May 5, 2022 YANGON, May 5 (Xinhua) — Myanmar has begun administering locally filled-and-packed doses of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines, locally known as the Myancopharm vaccines, according to the Ministry of Health on Thursday. “The […]

An update on human resources for health in Myanmar. Jamie https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/from-battlefields-to-hospitals-short-staffed-junta-moves-personnel-into-vacant-roles

Here is a wideranging view of the response to Covid19 in the south. Jamie ++++++++++++++++++ Tanintharyi People’s Voice holds press conference to release report titled “Myanmar Military’s Weaponization of COVID-19 in Tanintharyi Region 4th May, 2022 After the Myanmar Military launched its attempted coup on 1 February 2021, the military junta’s weaponizing of the COVID-19 […]