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    HIV-affected children shunned in education
    March 7, 2016in Health, Lead Story, News328by EI CHERRY AUNG / MYANMAR NOW
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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.

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    World AIDS Day highlights persisting discrimination
    December 1, 2015in Health, Lead Story, News75by DVB
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    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…

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    August 26, 2015in Health, Lead Story, News, Video15by DVB
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    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
    August 12, 2015in Health, Lead Story, News, Society56by MYANMAR NOW
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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
    July 6, 2015in Analysis, Contributor, Health, Lead Story, News168by DR TINT SWE
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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.

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    HIV positive cyclist on awareness tour
    January 17, 2014in Health, Lead Story, News80by NANG MYA NADI / DVB
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    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.

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