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    Rangoon madam sentenced to 15 years for procuring sex workers
    February 10, 2017in Crime, Lead Story, News, Rangoon131by DVB
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    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
    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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    Harsh laws put Mandalay sex workers' health at risk
    September 25, 2015in Health, Lead Story, Mandalay Division, News254by PAING SOE / DVB
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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.

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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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