Stroke is a major cause of disability in Ayeyarwady Division, which has the highest proportion of people with a disability in the country, a survey has found. (more…)
Ranong, Thailand – A few months after crossing illegally from Myanmar into Thailand, former political prisoner Aung found out he was HIV positive. (more…)
Chiang Mai – HIV-positive prevalence rates in areas controlled by cease-fire groups in the northern Burmese state of Kachin are more than 16 times the average for the country, resulting in concerns a disaster is imminent if the region fails to receive sufficient help, an NGO said of its quarter-long survey of the problem. (more…)
Bangkok – Three years of scarce rainfall in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone could worsen hunger in this normally hotter area, already one of the poorest in the country and suffering from chronic food shortages, said the outgoing chief of the U.N. food agency in Myanmar. (more…)
The members of Khit Thit Kyal (Modern Star) are holding a meeting in a one-storey thatched building provided by Aide Médicale Internationale (AMI), a French non-government organisation, to elect a facilitator, or leader, for their group. (more…)
Yangon — More than 130,000 people were infected with tuberculosis (TB) annually, standing one of the 22 countries in the world with most prevalence of the disease, the local Flower News reported Sunday. (more…)
The Burmese government has slashed duty tax on locally-produced alcohol and tobacco by a third in a move likely to raise eyebrows among health professionals and planners. (more…)
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Forced to flee their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs and seek shelter in Burma’s dense jungles, Karen villagers trying to escape Burmese government military offensives are being exposed to malaria carrying mosquitoes at an alarming rate. (more…)
Yangon – About 17,000 people out of 238,000 infected with HIV/AIDS in Myanmar died in 2009, the local Biweekly Eleven reported Thursday. (more…)
Chiang Mai – The spread of dengue fever is posing a serious health risk to people in Burma, especially as it spreads through the epidemic hot spots of Irrawaddy and Pegu divisions and Karen and Mon states.
New Delhi – A massive dengue outbreak is spreading through Mae La refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border, and 500 refugees are receiving treatment for the mosquito-borne fever, according to staff at the camp yesterday. (more…)
Burmese authorities denied on Saturday that there has been an outbreak of the plague in areas east of the Pegu mountain range, saying that the National Health Department has found no evidence of the disease in dead rats taken from areas considered at risk. (more…)
Yangon – Myanmar’s health ministry has circulated a warning among government departments about rat-borne plague after finding infected dead rodents in a compound of a government office, an official said. (more…)
AN estimated 1.3 million people in Myanmar are living with a physical or intellectual disability, according to a survey completed last year. (more…)
Larger numbers of people have been suffering from Malaria in eastern Ye Township [NMSP territory] according to doctors from local health clinics and facilities run by the New Mon State Party (NMSP). (more…)
Years of persistent efforts to vaccinate all pregnant women in Myanmar against maternal and neonatal tetanus have borne fruit with the country now declared free of the disease, the second East Asian nation to have achieved that milestone status, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported today. (more…)
Rangoon – Arsenic contamination in drinking water, which poses a serious public health risk, has been found in all 12 regions of Burma, a Ministry of Health official says, quoting a joint survey with the UN child protection body, Unicef. (more…)
Maungdaw – An unknown disease has broken out and is spreading on the western Burma border, affecting many people in the area, according to local journal and residents. (more…)
Nay Pyi Taw – Minister for Health Dr Kyaw Myint received Chairman Mr Phillippe Allen of Three Diseases Fund Board Mission and party at the Ministry here today. (more…)
Yangon – In Myanmar, where abortions are illegal, complications arising from unsafe terminations are the third leading cause of maternal deaths after post-partum haemorrhage and eclampsia, according to the government’s 2006-2011 National Health Plan. (more…)