Hundreds of people are believed to have been hit by an outbreak of dysentery and influenza in Mandalay city in central Burma as hospitals struggle to cope with the burden. (more…)

NAY PYI TAW — A ceremony to sign MoU between the department of Health under the Ministry of Health and INGOs took place at the ministry here yesterday noon. Director-General of the health department Dr Tun Naing Oo delivered a speech, and signed the MoU with INGOs—Care Myanmar, CESVI, Malteser International, World Vision (Myanmar), AMI, Merlin Organizations. — MNA

Chiang Mai – An important source for medical and health services for Burmese refugees and migrant workers, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has announced it will withdraw its services in Thailand. No date was given when the announcement was made in Bangkok on Tuesday. (more…)

AN INTERNATIONAL non-government organisation has launched a telephone hotline to provide advice on sexual and reproductive health to men who have sex with men and sex workers. (more…)

Doctor who went into self exile 23 years ago continues her struggle against the military junta
Esmer Golluoglu in Mae Sot

She is Burma’s most famous doctor, yet Cynthia Maung – or Dr Cynthia, as she is known locally – has not lived there for 20 years. She can’t: she’s a political refugee from the military junta . (more…)

Stigma and discrimination based on HIV status hampers the fight against AIDS in the region. (more…)

Chiang Mai – In reply to an MP’s question in the Burmese Lower House of Parliament, Health Minister Dr. Pe Thet Khin said that his department received a very small health budget––about 43 percent of its essential needs. (more…)

BANGKOK, 19 August 2011 (IRIN) – Aid workers in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State have expressed concern over prospects for food security after recent fighting between government forces and the rebel Kachin Independence Army (KIA). (more…)

There have been six new outbreaks of porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in two regions in the centre of the country. (more…)

An outbreak of diarrhoea in makeshift refugee camps in northeast Burma set up by Kachin Independence Organisation is affecting hundreds of children taking shelter there and resulted in two recent deaths, according to the KIO. (more…)

Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department officials last week announced more outbreaks of Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome.?Pic: Aye Zaw Myo (more…)

Nay Pyi Taw – Vice-President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Dr Sai Mauk Kham delivered an address in meeting with departmental heads of the Ministry of Health at the meeting hall of National Health Committee of the ministry this morning. (more…)

Around 2,000 Kachin war refugees who have fled recent fighting between Burmese government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) are now in need of food, shelter and medical assistance, according to relief groups. (more…)

A HUGE candle burns on the stage in Judson Hall as the announcer invites children to come forward. After lighting their small red candles from the larger flame, the kids disperse through the hall, sharing the light with the 200 people gathered for the memorial service. (more…)

The HIV Hotline Initiative Group (HHIG), which offers free phone counselling to HIV patients, next month plans to expand its services to include email counselling, said Ma Thida, a spokesperson from the organisation. (more…)

New Delhi – The prevalence of diabetes in lower Burma is 19.1 per cent, according to a joint survey conducted by Burmese and UN health organizations. (more…)

Nay Pyi Taw – Authorities in Myanmar are making an endeavour to prevent a pigs related blue ear disease from spreading to various regions of the country.

For this, the authorities have banned pigs bred in Bago region from entering Yangon region for sale as part of its preventive measures, Xinhua reported. (more…)

New Delhi – A five-year plan to provide continuous ARV drug treatment to Burmese HIV/AIDS patients was adopted at a meeting in Naypyitaw attended by government ministers, and UN and NGO officials. (more…)

Yangon — Over 120 officials, development partners and civil society representatives, including high ranking representatives of government and UN met in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, to launch the National Strategic Plan (NSP) for AIDS covering the years 2011 to 2015.  The Multi-Sector Workshop, hosted by the Ministry of Health was the first in a series of such workshop to be organized in different state and region in the country to raise awareness of the targets and priority HIV interventions defined in the new plan. (more…)

An illness that has ravaged hundreds of pigs across Burma appears to have spread to cattle and other domesticated animals, including cats and dogs. (more…)