Myanmar Health News

Central Committee in 1989 and related work programs were implemented since then.     Beginning 2000, prevention of HIV virus transmission from mother to child was initiated.     According to the latest figures, the infection rate of HIV in Myanmar has declined to...

In the three years that he was an injecting drug user, Phoe Htoo (not his real name) shared a needle with just one person—a close friend he grew up with. The 23-year-old said he and his friend always went to...

An Aloha Medical Mission team of 17 volunteer doctors and nurses performed nearly 60 surgeries and treated more than 300 patients during a recent two-week mission to Myanmar. Among them was an 11-year-old girl with a large eyelid tumor that...

She contracted the deadly virus from a blood transfusion after being admitted to a hospital for a miscarriage. Not knowing how she contracted HIV, she accused her husband of having unprotected extra-marital sex. She did not accept her husband's protestations...

Liberia Aims To Reach 3M With Yellow Fever Vaccine Liberia's Daily Observer reports on a yellow fever vaccination campaign to begin this week that will aim to inoculate 3 million Liberians. WHO, the initiative is in response to "the discovery...