Rangoon madam sentenced to 15 years for procuring sex workers
According to the police, Wai Wai Nu housed several young women, including a 13-year-old, at her home in South Okkalapa.
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HIV-affected children shunned in education
When her father died of AIDS in 2003, Pyae Phu Khaing* was just three years old, and only two years later her mother died of the same disease.
World AIDS Day highlights persisting discrimination
As the world marks International AIDS Day, between 190,000 and 230,000 people in Burma are living with HIV, according to 2014 UN estimates. The figure puts Burma at one of the highest rates of infection in the region.
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Harsh laws put Mandalay sex workers’ health at risk
Tough laws used to crack down on prostitution are denying education and health care to sex workers, according to a Mandalay-based civil society group.
Flood-hit HIV patients blocked from medication
A group which supports some among Burma’s 210,000 HIV/AIDs sufferers, says large scale displacement has made it impossible to find the patients.
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Underage Burmese girls driven to sex work
Aid workers say underage sex work is not only morally reprehensible but also physically harmful.
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Political prisoners need health care too
Doctors are obliged to maintain professional ethnics. The health of our political prisoners is an emergency, and we cannot wait.
HIV positive cyclist on awareness tour
Sarako, a 35 year old Mandalay native living with HIV since 2005, has visited over 40 towns to date on his cycle tour across Burma to promote HIV awareness.
ADB pledges HIV/AIDS support for remote villages in eastern Burma
With Japanese funding, the Asian Development Bank says it aims to provide significantly better HIV/AIDS services in remote parts of eastern Burma by 2017.
Burma cuts HIV rates, but minorities still at risk: UN
Burma has made enormous strides in addressing its HIV epidemic, slashing infection rates by 72 percent in little over a decade, but vulnerable groups including sex workers and gay men remain at risk, the UN warned on Tuesday.
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The stigma of HIV/AIDS in Little Burma
Many Burmese migrants work in the dock in Mahachai, Thailand. Many of them are poor and dream of one day returning home. But many of them also enjoy new freedoms that were taboo in their own country, including sexual experimentation and multiple partners.
DVB Debate: Burmacare – developing the healthcare system in Burma
This week’s DVB Debate raises the issue of public health care in Burma.
Burma to survey discrimination against children with HIV
The Burmese government is planning to conduct a survey to identify the prevalence of discrimination against HIV positive school children, according to a leading medical researcher
Burma and Japan to boost development ties
Burma and Japan have agreed to step up cooperation on development projects, with a special focus on tackling HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the poverty-stricken country, state media reported on Friday.
A long way to go
Despite a decline in HIV cases, Burma still has the worst infection rates in Asia. A government plan was put in place two years ago to ensure that everybody would[…]
Sex workers clamour for rights in a changing Burma
Faced with exploding HIV rates and daily threats of violence, sex workers in Burma are joining together to challenge prostitution laws they say leave them vulnerable to abuse
Burma faces HIV and TB crisis after global funding cuts
85,000 HIV sufferers to go without life-saving treatment, as donor govts backtrack on funding pledges
Asian alarm at deadly hepatitis spread
Hepatitis epidemic expected to kill five million in South and Southeast Asia over next decade as WHO pushes for better data
Burma govt in ambitious HIV pledge
International targets for HIV treatment to be met in Burma by 2015, according to a government statement queried by health workers
Sex workers find solace in Rangoon
Thousands of HIV-infected sex workers turn to private clinics in Rangoon rather than Burma’s crumbling healthcare system
HIV rates among Asian men ‘alarming’
Punitive laws against homosexuality across Asia ‘pushing the problem underground’, with 30 percent of gay and bisexual men in Rangoon infected
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Staring at a medical black hole
Joseph AllchinJan 11, 2010 (DVB), Not far from the white sand of Thailand's Andaman Sea coast, tucked away from the luxury resorts, sits some very different accommodation for 'foreigners'. This[…]
Staring at a medical black hole
Joseph AllchinJan 11, 2010 (DVB), Not far from the white sand of Thailand's Andaman Sea coast, tucked away from the luxury resorts, sits some very different accommodation for 'foreigners'. This[…]
Sex workers on the rise in Rangoon
Dec 17, 2009 (DVB), More women and young men are resorting to prostitution in order to scrape a living in Burma's former capital of Rangoon, local residents and social workers[…]
HIV/AIDS rates in Burmese prisons high
Dec 3, 2009 (DVB), Medical negligence and lack of contraception in Burmese prisons are leading to high rates of HIV infection among inmates, a political prisoner support group has warned.[…]
AIDS stems from ‘socially unacceptable behaviour’
Dec 1, 2009 (DVB), The Burmese government marked World AIDS Day today with an article in state-run media linking the disease to "socially unacceptable behavior", despite warning against stigmatizing AIDS[…]
HIV/AIDS cases decline across Asia
Nov 26, 2009 (DVB), The number of new HIV infections in Asia has decreased by 15 percent since 2001, although concerns remain for HIV/AIDS awareness in Burma where the disease[…]
Gay beauty contest for HIV/AIDS education
Aug 24, 2009 (DVB), A gay beauty contest is to be held at a top Rangoon hotel later this month to raise funds for HIV/AIDS education, according to sources from[…]
Global Fund could return to Burma
July 27, 2009 (DVB), A medical funding group that withdrew from Burma in 2005 is considering returning to the country in a move that would inject millions of dollars into[…]
Cyclone damage forcing women into prostitution
Apr 28, 2009 (DVB), The crippling of local businesses in the Irrawaddy delta following cyclone Nargis last year has pushed increasing numbers of women into prostitution, said a resident in[…]
