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
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.
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…
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
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.
Underage Burmese girls driven to sex work
Aid workers say underage sex work is not only morally reprehensible but also physically harmful.