I know some people are not going to be happy with me pointing out another error in Suu Kyi's recent speech. But I cannot ignore the fact that she said in her speech that AIDS deaths in Myanmar were halved in one year.

"within one year, deaths from HIV were halved – not because we are concentrating just on HIV/AIDS, but because we were concentrating on public health as a whole, the health of all of our peoples and all our communities"

If you are unsure of the quote then you can find it in the speech:

http://www.mizzima.com/news-domestic/aung-san-suu-kyi-calls-world-community-helping-find-peace-myanmar

She is wrong. In 2000 there were about 11,000 AIDS deaths and in 2017 there were about 8,000. In no year were AIDS deaths halved.

You can see a graph here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zhjf7h653rbezao/img6.jpg?dl=0

or do some searching yourself at:

http://www.aidsdatahub.org/myanmar-country-slides-2016

Is she misinformed or what?

Jamie