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.
According to the police, Wai Wai Nu housed several young women, including a 13-year-old, at her home in South Okkalapa.
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.
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
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.
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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Aid workers say underage sex work is not only morally reprehensible but also physically harmful.
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Doctors are obliged to maintain professional ethnics. The health of our political prisoners is an emergency, and we cannot wait.
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.
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 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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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.
This week’s DVB Debate raises the issue of public health care in Burma.
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 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.
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[…]
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
85,000 HIV sufferers to go without life-saving treatment, as donor govts backtrack on funding pledges
Hepatitis epidemic expected to kill five million in South and Southeast Asia over next decade as WHO pushes for better data
International targets for HIV treatment to be met in Burma by 2015, according to a government statement queried by health workers
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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