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    New project targets early childhood development in Chin State
    October 28, 2016in Chin, Health, Lead Story, News495by LIBBY HOGAN / DVB
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    New project targets early childhood development in Chin State

    A new programme set to begin early next year aims to prevent the widespread problem of stunting among children in Chin State.

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    Deadly measles outbreak ‘not contained’, say Naga activists
    August 17, 2016in Health, Lead Story, News, Sagaing221by LIBBY HOGAN / DVB
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    Deadly measles outbreak ‘not contained’, say Naga activists

    “Under these circumstances, there is no way we can accept the Department of Health statement that the disease is under control,” said Naw Aung San at a press conference.

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    Mae Tao Clinic gets set for big move
    May 27, 2016in Health, Lead Story, News1258by LIBBY HOGAN / DVB
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    Mae Tao Clinic gets set for big move

    The new location will help to accommodate the growing number of people using the clinic, which now serves 150,000 patients a year.

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    NLD lays out plan to introduce universal healthcare by 2030
    April 14, 2016in Health, Lead Story, News101by LIBBY HOGAN / DVB
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    NLD lays out plan to introduce universal healthcare by 2030

    The first phase of the plan to introduce universal healthcare to Burma — providing a basic package for the poor — will be ready by 2020.

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    Burma's deadly abortion taboo
    March 30, 2016in Feature, Lead Story, News, Women's Issues906by KIMBERLEY PHILLIPS / DVB
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    Burma's deadly abortion taboo

    “One of my friends is five weeks pregnant. She is uneducated and poor. Her boyfriend ran away when she told him that she was pregnant. She’s crying.”

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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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