Are transgendered people men who have sex with men? Are men who have sex with transgendered people men who have sex with men?

Why are transgendered people not in the national strategic plan?

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NGOs distribute pamphlets, condoms at Taungbyone festival
Phyo Wai Kyaw and Sithu Lwin
Myanmar Times
Volume 33, No. 642
September 3 - 9, 2012

INTERNATIONAL and Myanmar non-government organisations last week distributed thousands of condoms and educational pamphlets at the Taungbyone Nat Festival, an annual gathering point for members of the country’s gay community.

Representatives from Marie Stopes International, Myanmar Business Coalition on AIDS (MBCA), Care Myanmar and Save the Children also operated a health education centre at the festival site, offering voluntary and confidential counselling and testing.

“We are going to share 10,000 condoms on August 27, 28 and 29 targeting [men who have sex with men]. The other associations will also participate with their plans under the umbrella of the Myanmar National Aids Program (Mandalay),” said MBCA project officer Dr Htay Maung.

“This is the fourth year [MBCA] has conducted these activities at Taungbyone Nat Festival,” he said.

He said patrons had been less hesitant to visit the centre than in previous years, with both younger and middle-aged people paying visits.

An MBCA staff member said some people were still reluctant to take pamphlets or condoms in public but came and looked around the centre.

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