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	<title>Burmanet &#187; Health / AIDS</title>
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		<title>CNN: Victims of Myanmar&#8217;s HIV/AIDS struggle &#8211; Paul Hancocks</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/19/cnn-victims-of-myanmars-hivaids-struggle-paul-hancocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yangon, Myanmar &#8212; Ma Soe Soe Kyi&#8217;s skeletal frame is visible above her blanket; she is too weak to keep her eyes open. Her husband waves away the flies and looks on helplessly. Kyi is HIV positive and finally getting help and medication from a private HIV clinic in Yangon, Myanmar. There are 60 patients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Kerala: Myanmar promotes healthy diet, breastfeeding</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/08/02/new-kerala-myanmar-promotes-healthy-diet-breastfeeding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/08/02/new-kerala-myanmar-promotes-healthy-diet-breastfeeding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yangon &#8211; Myanmar has launched a month-long campaign to promote healthy diet and breastfeeding, vital for the development of the mother and her kids. Organised jointly by the National Nutrition Centre, international and local NGOs, and the Unicef, the campaign will devote August&#8217;s first week on breastfeeding and the remaining period on nutrition, the UN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Australian: Funding fails unacceptable reality of aids in Burma &#8211; Paul McPhun</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/07/25/the-australian-funding-fails-unacceptable-reality-of-aids-in-burma-paul-mcphun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/07/25/the-australian-funding-fails-unacceptable-reality-of-aids-in-burma-paul-mcphun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health / AIDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the back of Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd&#8217;s recent trip to Burma and his visit to a Medecins Sans Frontieres HIV/AIDS clinic in Rangoon, the Australian government announced its assistance had increased in the past year by $18.5 million and was on track to reach $50m by next financial year. Rudd explained that the Australian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Asian alarm at deadly hepatitis spread &#8211; Francis Wade</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/07/22/democratic-voice-of-burma-asian-alarm-at-deadly-hepatitis-spread-francis-wade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/07/22/democratic-voice-of-burma-asian-alarm-at-deadly-hepatitis-spread-francis-wade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health / AIDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than five million people in South and Southeast Asia will die from viral hepatitis over the next decade as experts warn of a rampant epidemic that has already taken more lives than malaria, dengue and HIV/AIDS combined in the past 10 years. The crisis is compounded by lack of awareness about the disease and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Burmese health officials issue E. Coli warning</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/07/13/irrawaddy-burmese-health-officials-issue-e-coli-warning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/07/13/irrawaddy-burmese-health-officials-issue-e-coli-warning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health / AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=27531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A month after an outbreak of deadly illness caused by a rare strain of E. coli killed 50 people in Germany and France, Burmese Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials have announced that they have discovered evidence of the bacteria in Burma. FDA officials said that they found E. coli during restaurant inspections in various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agence France Presse: Myanmar&#8217;s sex worker clinics offer solace from stigma &#8211; Alex Delamare</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/05/23/agence-france-presse-myanmars-sex-worker-clinics-offer-solace-from-stigma-alex-delamare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/05/23/agence-france-presse-myanmars-sex-worker-clinics-offer-solace-from-stigma-alex-delamare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 19:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health / AIDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yangon– When Thida Win contracted HIV after selling her body on the Yangon streets, it was her fellow sex workers that she turned to, not Myanmar&#8217;s crumbling health service. The Top project, run almost entirely by those in the sex trade, gave her treatment, a place to be herself away from the dual stigma of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deutsche Welle: Curbing AIDS in Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/04/01/deutsche-welle-curbing-aids-in-myanmar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/04/01/deutsche-welle-curbing-aids-in-myanmar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health / AIDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Myanmar, progress is being made to reduce the rate of new HIV-AIDS infections after several years of a national program. But international sanctions on Myanmar are hampering efforts to curb the spread of the virus. The United Nations estimates a quarter of a million people in Myanmar have been infected with AIDS. Just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Burma has ‘one doctor for every 8000 prisoners’</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/10/15/democratic-voice-of-burma-burma-has-%e2%80%98one-doctor-for-every-8000-prisoners%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/10/15/democratic-voice-of-burma-burma-has-%e2%80%98one-doctor-for-every-8000-prisoners%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health / AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/10/15/democratic-voice-of-burma-burma-has-%e2%80%98one-doctor-for-every-8000-prisoners%e2%80%99/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Details of healthcare professionals available to Burma’s estimated 200,000 prisoner population has exposed a grossly under-resourced sector, with one doctor available for every 8000 inmates. The prisoner population is spread over 43 prisons and around 100 labour camps scattered across the country, from the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon, built by the British in 1871, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agence France Presse: Malaria stalks Myanmar poor as healthcare crumbles &#8211; Rob Bryan</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/10/15/agence-france-presse-malaria-stalks-myanmar-poor-as-healthcare-crumbles-rob-bryan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/10/15/agence-france-presse-malaria-stalks-myanmar-poor-as-healthcare-crumbles-rob-bryan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health / AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/10/15/agence-france-presse-malaria-stalks-myanmar-poor-as-healthcare-crumbles-rob-bryan/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a sleepy, rural settlement in the far north of army-ruled Myanmar, farmer Tu Raw anxiously cuddles his young son and baby daughter, both coughing and feverish with the symptoms of malaria. About half of the villagers in this remote corner of Kachin State are suffering from the mosquito-borne disease, but medical supplies provided by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Deadly plague found in Burma &#8211; Aung Thet Wine</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/07/06/irrawaddy-deadly-plague-found-in-burma-aung-thet-wine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/07/06/irrawaddy-deadly-plague-found-in-burma-aung-thet-wine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health / AIDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rangoon — An unspecified number of Rangoon residents have been diagnosed with plague, a contagious disease primarily transmitted by rodents (mostly rats), according to the Burmese Ministry of Health (MOH) in Naypyidaw. An epidemiologist at MOH who asked to remain anonymous told The Irrawaddy that some people infected with plague were found in Rangoon in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Dengue fever infects 80 this week in Rangoon &#8211; Kyaw Kha</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/07/01/mizzima-news-dengue-fever-infects-80-this-week-in-rangoon-kyaw-kha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/07/01/mizzima-news-dengue-fever-infects-80-this-week-in-rangoon-kyaw-kha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/07/01/mizzima-news-dengue-fever-infects-80-this-week-in-rangoon-kyaw-kha/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chiang Mai  –  More than 900 people in Rangoon Division were infected with dengue fever and six died in the first four months of this year, according to state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua and a well-placed source at the Burmese Medical Association in Rangoon. Six out of a total 910 people infected with dengue died [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernama: Some 230 die of heat stress in Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/05/19/bernama-some-230-die-of-heat-stress-in-myanmar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/05/19/bernama-some-230-die-of-heat-stress-in-myanmar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 18:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yangon &#8212; At least 230 people have died of heat stress in Myanmar&#8217;s second largest city of Mandalay during the weekend, as temperature recorded at 45 degree Celsius, the local daily quoted Mandalay municipal authorities as reporting Wednesday. The red-hot temperature has brought many patients of all ages to the Mandalay General Hospital and private [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: HIV rates among Asian men ‘alarming’ &#8211; Francis Wade</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/05/19/democratic-voice-of-burma-hiv-rates-among-asian-men-%e2%80%98alarming%e2%80%99-francis-wade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/05/19/democratic-voice-of-burma-hiv-rates-among-asian-men-%e2%80%98alarming%e2%80%99-francis-wade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 18:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A serious shortage in use of contraception by gay and bisexual men in the Asia-Pacific region, coupled with criminalisation of the practice, is causing “alarming” rates of HIV. The warning was issued in a joint report by the UN Development Programme, the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCPM) and the University of Hong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters: HIV among gay, bisexual men at alarming highs in Asia &#8211; Tan Ee Lyn</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/05/17/reuters-hiv-among-gay-bisexual-men-at-alarming-highs-in-asia-tan-ee-lyn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/05/17/reuters-hiv-among-gay-bisexual-men-at-alarming-highs-in-asia-tan-ee-lyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 23:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/05/17/reuters-hiv-among-gay-bisexual-men-at-alarming-highs-in-asia-tan-ee-lyn/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong &#8211; HIV prevalence among gay and bisexual men has hit alarming levels in Asia and most of them do not have access to services and care due to punitive laws which drive them underground, a U.N.-backed report said on Monday. The situation may worsen if countries fail to reverse laws that criminalize sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xinhua (via People’s Daily Online) Diarrhoea hit Myanmar Waw township amid water scarcity</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2010/05/13/xinhua-via-people%e2%80%99s-daily-online-diarrhoea-hit-myanmar-waw-township-amid-water-scarcity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 06:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diarrhoea has hit Waw township in Myanmar&#8217;s Bago division-East amid water scarcity, the state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday. The outbreak of diarrhoea was apparent over the past seven days infecting 82 people including 42 men and 40 women. They were being hospitalized in the Waw General Hospital, the report said, adding that [...]]]></description>
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