New Delhi – The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has urged the international community to mount pressure on Burma’s ruling junta to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to resume visits to detention centres, where widespread torture and abuses have been reported. (more…)

Chiang Mai – Even as three teenagers and two children were found infected with the A(H1N1) virus, the total number of those afflicted rose to 19 in the Meala Burmese refugee camp, located along the Thai-Burma border. (more…)

New Delhi – The Burmese Ministry of Health has directed a network of voluntary groups, which are providing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS, to register with the ministry. (more…)

New Delhi – At least three people have died and 329 people infected with dengue fever this year in Sittwe and Kyaukphyu of Arakan State in western Burma, according to information from the Ministry of Health. (more…)

Four Burmese children living in a refugee camp close to the Thai-Burma border have been infected with the AH1N1 virus, according to a medical aid group working in the area. (more…)

The Burmese government today confirmed the tenth case of the A(H1N1) swine flu virus, that of a 57-year-old man who had recently returned from Singapore. (more…)

An outbreak of dengue fever has hit a camp in Thailand that holds some 37,000 refugees from Burma, with ten people so far known to have been affected. (more…)

A medical funding group that withdrew from Burma in 2005 is considering returning to the country in a move that would inject millions of dollars into tripling the amount of people receiving treatment for AIDS. (more…)

Agricultural credit should be made available in order to prevent rural indebtedness and to improve agricultural production in Burma, said Dr. Noeleen Heyzer the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economics and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). (more…)

Shrunken to 30 pounds of skin and bones, Ma Moe could barely walk when she arrived on the doorstep of the clinic nearly two years ago. AIDS had killed her husband three years earlier, and it was slowly killing her. (more…)

An outbreak of dengue fever in Myitkyina, capital of Burma’s Kachin State, has claimed several lives, according to local residents. (more…)

Rangoon-While stocks of preventive medicines for influenza are diminishing in Rangoon, prices are soaring, with anti-seasonal flu injections costing up to 200,000 kyat (US $200) at some clinics. (more…)

Rangoon-There were over 3,700 dengue fever patients annually in Rangoon Division alone, of whom about 30 patients died, statistics released by the Burmese Ministry of Health said.
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Internally displaced persons hiding in jungles in eastern Burma are suffering from outbreaks of malaria and dengue fever with almost no medicine or medical facilities, according a Karen aid group. (more…)

Survivors of last year’s deadly Cyclone Nargis are worried that the departure of foreign aid workers from the Irrawaddy delta will expose them to even greater food insecurity, according to local sources. (more…)

Myanmar health authorities have tightened measure against further spread of influenza A/H1N1 in Yangon, to prevent from severe consequences, sources with the Yangon municipal authority said on Wednesday. (more…)

At least 10 children have died and several are ill after being afflicted by Dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, in Kalemyo a town near the Indo-Burma border in Sagaing Division, north-western Burma, an official at a private clinic said. (more…)

Another carrier of the flu virus H1N1, commonly known as ‘Swine Flu’, has been detected in Rangoon, and officially announced by the Burmese government television last night. (more…)

A number of children under 12 years of age have died from dengue in Kalemyo, Sagaing division western Burma.
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A 13-year-old girl visited Singapore together with her family on 21 June and arrived back in Yangon on 26 June at 1.30 pm. Although she was found to have no fever while she was screened by health staff at the airport, she had to be hospitalized at 9 pm on 26 June after her teacher had noticed her having a persistent cough during the private tuition. She was kept in a private room of Yangon General Hospital. After giving her a check-up, the National Health Laboratory on 27 June confirmed that she was infected with new influenza A (H1N1). (more…)