http://him.civiblog.org/blog AIDS in Burma and HIV Information for Myanmar [him] is published in memory of Hla Htut Lwin - activist, coworker, and friend. This blog is for anyone with an interest in the response to HIV in Myanmar. Burma Rangoon Yangon Mandalay HIV AIDS HIV/AIDS him [him] free email list "in times of war and of hostilities the first casualty is truth" U Thant en-us Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:16:03 +0630 Main Page Blogware HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/8/3587969.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/8/3587969.html Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:38:00 +0630 [ဟင္: မ္] ဘေလာ့မွာ ေဖာ္ျပေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ ဆိုင္တဲ့ အိတ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗြီ သတင္း ေကာင္းႏိုးရာရာ ေတြကို စီစဥ္သူေတြက အီးေမးလ္ကေန အခမဲ့ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ ၀န္ေဆာင္ေပး ေနပါတယ္။ အီးေမးလ္ကေန တဆင့္ ေဆာင္းပါးနဲ႔ သတင္းေတြကို လက္ခံခ်င္သူ၊ စာမူ ေပးပို႔လိုသူေတြ အေနနဲ႔ ( HIV.Information.for.Myanmar [at] gmail [dot] com ) လိပ္စာကို အီးေမးလ္ေရးသား ဆက္သြယ္လိုက္ပါ။ စာရင္း၀င္ၿပီးတာနဲ႔ အခု အင္တာနက္စာမ်က္ႏွာမွာ တင္မယ့္စာမူေတြကို ေန႔စဥ္ လက္ခံရရွိႏုိင္မွာ ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ေ၀ဖန္အၾကံျပဳခ်က္ေတြကို မိမိဘယ္သူဆိုတာ ေဖာ္ျပစရာမလိုဘဲ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေရးသားေပးပို႔ ႏိုင္ၾကပါတယ္။ Myanmar thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/8/3234836.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/8/3234836.html Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:32:00 +0630 There is a free email list service based on this blog for anyone with email access and an interest in the response to HIV in Burma. Send an email to HIV.Information.for.Myanmar [at] gmail [dot] com if you want to become a new subscriber. You will receive one to three postings a day. Please feel free to comment anonymously. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/14/3791180.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/14/3791180.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:01:00 +0630 There are grants available for TB. Go for them. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/12/3789720.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/12/3789720.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:14:00 +0630 Have your say in this questionnaire from the Asian Harm Reduction Network. And feel free to send a copy to [him] of your email response to Wathanee. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/12/3788779.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/12/3788779.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:59:00 +0630 We should all read carefully what Aung Zaw has written. He is correct to say that there is no more inside and outside. And he is right that the true crisis managers are Burman and nonBurman Burmese who shoulder the burden of both relief and development work. Rowdy expatriate parties are not new(s). Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/11/3787349.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/11/3787349.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:40:00 +0630 Alison Vicary, Sean Turnell, and Wylie Bradford of the Burma Economic Watch Team here use the Fund for HIV/AIDS in Myanmar as a case study in looking for that Holy Grail of economists: cost effectiveness. The tone of this report can be described by the [him] moderator as 'snarky'. College sophomores use the same style. So the paper would not be accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal. But then the Burma Economic Watch has never presented itself as one. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/10/3785468.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/10/3785468.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:37:00 +0630 They found the TB patients ... Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/9/3783483.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/9/3783483.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:27:00 +0630 This article appears to be custom-made for Myanmar ... Main Page HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/1/3770737.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/1/3770737.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:14:00 +0630 WhenThailand detected its first Aids victim in 1984, few Thais had a clue about it. And 25 years later, with more than one million people suffering from HIV/Aids, few still have a clue about it. Apart from the fear of deep social stigma, people have a lot of misunderstandings about the disease and little awareness on self protection. And that is the challenge for the hotline service Aids Access Foundation. - Bangkok Post/ Outlook/ June 24, 2008 - Main Page HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/30/3769674.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/30/3769674.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:22:00 +0630 She had taken her son to hospital near their village in southern Kyrgyzstan because he had heat stroke. Eight months later he was diagnosed with HIV. "I thought my life was over," she said. The doctors who treated Bekhruzbek are now on trial, accused of infecting him. Main Page HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/26/3762764.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/26/3762764.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:30:00 +0630 အိတ္ခ်္အိုင္ဗြီ၊ ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ အသံုးအႏႈန္းမ်ားသည္ လူထု၏ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္၊ အယူအဆႏွင့္ သေဘာထားမ်ားကို ပံုစံေျပာင္းႏိုင္သည္။ သို႔ျဖစ္၍ သံုးႏႈန္းေသာ စကားလံုးမ်ားသည္ အျပဳသေဘာ ေဆာင္သင့္သည္၊ အစြဲအလမ္းမ်ား၊ အ႐ိုးစြဲေတြးေခၚမႈမ်ား ကင္းသင့္ၿပီး မွားယြင္းေသာ အာဃာတ အစြဲအလမ္းမ်ားကိုလည္း မီးေလာင္ရာေလပင့္ သလို မျဖစ္ေစသင့္ေပ။ - စာ - ၉၈ - ၁၀၅/ အသံုး၀င္မည့္အကိုးအကား အခ်က္အလက္မ်ား - Media Guide for HIV Reporting - Main Page Myanmar HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756304.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756304.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:04:00 +0630 အာရွတိုက္ရဲ႕ ေဒသတြင္းလမ္းေဖာ္လုပ္ေပးေရးမွာ ေငြေၾကးသံုးစြဲတာဟာ လမ္းပန္းဆက္သြယ္ေရး တိုးတက္ေကာင္းမြန္လာတာနဲ႔အမွ် HIV/AIDS ေရာဂါလည္း ပိုမိုၿပီးျပန္႔ပြားလာႏိုင္တယ္လို႔ အာရွဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး ဘဏ္က ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီကေန႔ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ ၂၈ ရက္ ၾကာသပေတးေန႔မွာ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္တ့ဲ အာရွဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးဘဏ္ (ေအဒီဘီ) ရဲ႕ ေလ့လာခ်က္ အစီရင္ခံစာမွာ ခရီးလမ္းပန္းဆက္သြယ္ေရး ေကာင္းမြန္လာတာနဲ႔အမွ် တဖက္မွာလည္း ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ေရာဂါ ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႕ႏႈန္းျမင့္တက္လာတာ ေတြ႔ရတယ္လို႔ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။ - လြတ္လပ္ေသာအာရွအသံ၊ ျမန္မာဌာန၊ သတင္းမ်ား 2008-02-28 - Myanmar HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756285.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756285.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:52:00 +0630 ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ေရာဂါဟာ အာရွတိုက္က အသက္ ၁၅ ႏွစ္နဲ႔ အသက္ ၄၄ ႏွစ္အၾကား အသက္အရြယ္ရွိသူေတြ အမ်ားဆံုး ေသဆံုးရတ့ဲ ေရာဂါျဖစ္ေနဆဲပဲလို႔ အိႏိၵယ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ အႀကံေပးအရာရွိခ်ဳပ္က ေျပာဆို လိုက္ပါတယ္။ အာရွေဒသတြင္း ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ေရာဂါနဲ႔ ပတ္သတ္ၿပီး ဖြဲ႔စည္းထားတ့ဲ လြတ္လပ္တ့ဲေကာ္မရွင္ တခုက ဒီသတင္းကို ထုတ္ျပန္ခ့ဲတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြ ပါ၀င္ဖြဲ႔စည္းထားၿပီး ဒီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဥကၠ႒က အိႏိၵယ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ အႀကံေပးအရာရွိခ်ဳပ္ ပါေမာကၡ မစၥတာ C.Rangarajan ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ - လြတ္လပ္ေသာအာရွအသံ၊ ျမန္မာဌာန၊ သတင္းမ်ား 2008-03-27 - Myanmar HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756277.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756277.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:47:00 +0630 ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ေရာဂါျဖစ္ပြားေနသူေတြကို ကူညီကုသေပးတ့ဲ ႏိုင္ငံျခားက အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကို စစ္အစိုးရက ခြင့္မျပဳတ့ဲအတြက္ ေရာဂါျပန္႔ပြားမႈေတြ တိုးပြားေနရတ့ဲ အေၾကာင္းကို ကမၻာေက်ာ္ တိုင္းမ္စ္ မဂၢဇင္း ႀကီးမွာ ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ပါတယ္။ - လြတ္လပ္ေသာအာရွအသံ၊ ျမန္မာဌာန၊ သတင္းမ်ား 2008-03-29 - Myanmar HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756272.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756272.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:39:00 +0630 ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ခ်္ ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို ကုလသမဂၢ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆုိင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီးရံုး UNHCR မွ ႀကီးမွဴးက်င္းပသည့္ HIV/AIDS အေၾကာင္း တရက္ၾကာ သင္တန္းကို ပထမအႀကိမ္အျဖစ္ ယမန္ေန႔က ေကာ့စ္ဘဇားၿမိဳ႕ ဟိုတယ္တခုတြင္ ေဟာေျပာပို႔ခ်ခဲ့သည္။ - ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း စေနေန႔၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ 15 2007 02:18 - ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ Mizzima News - Myanmar HimB http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756253.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/22/3756253.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:21:00 +0630 ေတာင္ဒဂံုတြင္ အိတ္ခ်္အုိင္ဗီြႏွင့္ ေနထုိင္သူမ်ားအတြက္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားေသာ ေဂဟာ (၂) ခုမွ ေဝဒနာရွင္မ်ားသည္ ယခုအခါ စိတ္ဓာတ္ က်ဆင္းမႈမ်ား ခံစားေနရသည္။ ေတာင္ဒဂံုၿမ့ဳိနယ္၊ ရပ္ကြက္ (၁၈) ႏွင့္ (၂ဝ) တို႔တြင္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားေသာ ေဂဟာမွ အိတ္ခ်္အုိင္ဗြီႏွင့္ ေနထုိင္သူမ်ားသည္ သူတို႔ ေလးစားခ်စ္ခင္ေသာ မျဖဴျဖဴသင္း ပုန္းေရွာင္ေနရသည့္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည္ (၅) လအတြင္း ယခုကဲ့သို႔ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ဆင္းမႈမ်ား သိသိသာသာ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ - သန္းထုိက္ဦး တနလၤာေန႔၊ ဇန္နဝါရီလ 14 2008 22:17 - ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ Mizzima - Myanmar thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/21/3755255.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/21/3755255.html Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:18:00 +0630 In the correspondence below we see that a WHO regional advisor writes "Myanmar has one of the BEST public health care delivery system in the world." This makes the [him] moderator concerned about the mental health of the advisor. What is the evidence base that mental health interventions after emergencies are effective? Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/19/3751654.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/19/3751654.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:40:00 +0630 To celebrate Daw Suu's birthday [him] today begins to publish both English and Burmese versions of the Media Guide for Reporting HIV and AIDS. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/18/3752043.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/18/3752043.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:03:00 +0630 Ko Htike takes on the UN by questioning their activities to control a nonexistent dengue epidemic. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/17/3750990.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/17/3750990.html Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:32:00 +0630 Sister Mary's car is all but held together with sticky tape and string, but she guides it over the bumpy roads of Mytkyina as lovingly and carefully as if it was one of her chronically ill patients in a wheelchair. She knows how important this old jalopy is. It's what enables her and Lucy, her local sidekick, to visit some of the people who would be totally cut off from help. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/16/3746555.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/16/3746555.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:26:00 +0630 " ... participatory citizenship doesn't simply demand action from existing citizens; it makes action at once the condition and task of citizenship." Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/15/3745015.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/15/3745015.html Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:58:00 +0630 Lots of red earth flying about intellectual honesty and chains rather than networks of transmission. Will these discussions lead to more clarity? [him] hopes so ... Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/14/3743470.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/14/3743470.html Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:46:00 +0630 The [him] moderator received this anonymous comment: "The same characters who are oppose humanitarian aid to Burma are defending Chevron's ability to stay in the country and using US tax payer money to reimburse Chevron for taxes that it pays to ... the junta. The people defending an "engagement" position with respect to a private oil company are so morally righteous and so actively anti-engagement on the humanitarian front. Outrageous." Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/13/3741680.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/13/3741680.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:08:00 +0630 The [him] website Cbox has the following question: "Hi, i'm doing a research and i need help. I would like to know about the HIV/AIDS prevalence and infection rate in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta. Any advice on where I can find that? Thanks =)" Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/12/3739946.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/12/3739946.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:29:00 +0630 The [him] moderator has made a few comments in parentheses on the article about these twelve myths and misconceptions by a Harvard faculty member. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/11/3738392.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/11/3738392.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:29:00 +0630 This article would have been much more useful if an estimate was given by Fadela Chaib of the number of people previously taking DOTS in Nargis affected areas. Their interruption of treatment will not necessarily lead to resistance if they are treated as temporary defaulters by a fast-recovering National Tuberculosis Programme. There is a much greater risk of increased transmission in camps. Watch for more disaster recovery materials soon. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/10/3736805.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/10/3736805.html Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:29:00 +0630 WHO has finally come out and stated something closer to the truth. Now it is UNAIDS turn. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/9/3734952.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/9/3734952.html Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:10:00 +0630 U Thant wrote this sixty years ago. How little has changed. Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/8/3733491.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/8/3733491.html Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:45:00 +0630 Louise Arbour's last speech to the Human Rights Council includes: Main Page thehimmoderator http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/7/3732355.html http://him.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/6/7/3732355.html Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:26:00 +0630 The proxy announcement from Myanmar Teleport is nonsense. People still need and can use proxies. And as long as internet cafes expect to make money they will provide or allow them. Bandwidth restriction is used in Iran ... Main Page