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    Tagged: HIV

    Crime Lead Story News Rangoon

    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.

    Health Lead Story News

    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.

    Health Lead Story News

    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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    Health Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    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 video

    Health Lead Story News Video

    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.

    Health Lead Story News Society

    Underage Burmese girls driven to sex work

    Aid workers say underage sex work is not only morally reprehensible but also physically harmful.

    Analysis Contributor Health Lead Story News

    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.

    Health Lead Story News

    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.

    Health Lead Story News

    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.

    Health Lead Story News

    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.

    The stigma of HIV/AIDS in Little Burma video

    Health Lead Story Society Video

    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 video

    DVB Debate Lead Story Video

    DVB Debate: Burmacare – developing the healthcare system in Burma

    This week’s DVB Debate raises the issue of public health care in Burma.

    Health Lead Story News

    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

    Health News

    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 video

    Video

    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[…]

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    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

    Health News

    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

    Health News

    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

    Health News

    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

    Health News

    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

    Features (OLD) Health Uncategorized

    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[…]

    Uncategorized

    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[…]

    News Politics Uncategorized

    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[…]

    Health News Uncategorized

    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.[…]

    Health Media News

    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[…]

    Health News

    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[…]

    Health News

    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[…]

    Business News Politics

    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[…]

    Business Environment News

    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[…]

    Health News

    Doctor says Burma ignores HIV/AIDS threat

    Apr 3, 2009 (DVB), A Burmese doctor has said that the country's leaders are ignoring the threat posed by HIV/AIDS in the hope that it will go away of its[…]

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