Gotta love this headline: “A pilot programme in Myanmar provides both menstrual health support and economic opportunity” https://www.unfpa.org/news/pilot-programme-myanmar-provides-both-menstrual-health-support-and-economic-opportunity https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/pilot-programme-myanmar-provides-both-menstrual-health-support-and-economic Jamie

I can’t do any better than Andrew Nachemson’s critical analysis of Covid19 vaccine coverage as announced by the military junta. In a Twitter thread. I actually don’t think this is correct for two reasons. First (and most obviously), i don’t see why we should be counting single doses as vaccinated, especially when state media previously […]

One and a half million people are in this Viber group. They can’t all be wrong. https://invite.viber.com/?g2=AQBe%2FvLXbPNY0E2epk77FRZk2UrHQWi8CCTBoq90MZbvmfU47pFma19wj3OgY4IP&lang=en Jamie

The Gates-funded Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation IHME has produced and excellent page of graphics on health in Myanmar. https://www.healthdata.org/myanmar Jamie

Art Friday https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/myanmar-artists-auction/ Jamie

Is Myat of Myanmar heritage? Jamie

Norway is now contributing to the Access to Health Fund managed by UNOPS in Myanmar. How much? https://scandasia.com/norway-becomes-newest-donor-to-the-access-to-health-fund-managed-by-unops-myanmar/ Jamie

Someone went fishing in old DHS datasets. HIV testing in Myanmar … https://mchandaids.org/index.php/IJMA/article/view/525/228 Jamie

Here is a report from TNI. “No One Left Behind? Covid-19 and the Struggle for Peace and Justice in Myanmar” And a quote from the summary: “Covid-19 is not the only crisis facing the country. Rather, its emergence – and the inability to cope – have further exposed the political failings and long-standing need for […]

It is the junta, not the virus, that is causing the noted “drop in income”. This will have wide ranging and long lasting negative impacts on the health of the people of Myanmar. https://www.asia-pacific.undp.org/content/rbap/en/home/library/sustainable-development/myanmar-people-pulse-survey-report-2021.html Jamie

This is a devastating report on cervical cancer in Myanmar. https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/country-profiles/cervical-cancer/cervical-cancer-mmr-2021-country-profile-en.pdf?sfvrsn=27b74210_13&download=true “9 in 10 girls in the primary target cohort in 2020 have received their first HPV vaccination dose” and “99% programme coverage” are, of course, pure bullshit. The small number of nine year olds vaccinated is conveniently not reported. People worked hard to include […]

Devastating narrative from MSF Myanmar today. https://doctorswithoutborders-apac.org/en/world-aids-day-myanmar-political-turmoil-threatens-hiv-care Jamie