Myanmar

International Activity Report, 2007 The distress experienced by millions of people in Myanmar continues large ly unnoticed. controlled by a military regime since 1962 and subject to international sanctions, the country has been cut off from the outside world for decades. people lack access to healthcare and cannot afford these services even when they are available.   With malaria, malnutrition, tuberculosis (TB) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) causing a huge amount of illness and death, MSF conducts ongoing negotiations to access patients in this difficult environment and performed over one million medical consultations in 2006. Projects in 2006/2007 were running in Yangon, Thaninthary division and in Kayah, Kachin...

Bangkok, Thailand – In a report released today Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar, highlights the critical need for increased HIV and Tuberculosis (TB), including multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), treatment in the country. An HIV patient is assessed in an MSF clinic, Myanmar. He is 21 years old yet weighs just 23kg. Photo: Greg Constantine   According to the report, 85,000 people in urgent need of lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in Myanmar are today unable to access it. Of an estimated 9,300 people newly infected with MDR-TB each year, so far just over 300 have been receiving treatment...

 The UN estimates that over the last few years between 15,000 – 20,000 people living with HIV die annually in Myanmar, because of lack of access to urgent lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Lives in the Balance outlines the situation for people affected by HIV and TB, with a special focus on multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), in Myanmar today. It calls for urgent funding and assistance to be made available by the international donor community to help Myanmar close the devastating gap between people’s need and people’s access to treatment for HIV and TB. An estimated 120,000 people living with HIV/AIDS are in need of lifesaving ART, in Myanmar. In 2010, according to national estimates,...

  Open publication - Free publishing - More aids   "Getting Ahead of the Wave: Lessons for the Next Decade of the AIDS Response" details MSF’s experience implementing treatment strategies to improve care and policies needed to make massive scale-up of treatment more affordable. The report also presents results of a survey conducted by MSF teams in 16 countries on progress in implementing WHO treatment guidelines as well as other important strategies to increase access to antiretroviral treatment (ART). While many countries have adopted improved protocols and policies, most HIV-prevalent countries are still struggling to reach more than 50% of people in need of ART or provide ART in more than...