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    Doctors: Myanmar desperate for HIV and TB drugs

    Associated Press – Wed, Feb 22, 2012

    BANGKOK (AP) — Some 85,000 HIV-infected people in Myanmar are not getting treatment due to a lack of funding, despite renewed international engagement with the government amid a wave of political reform, a medical aid group said Wednesday.

    Doctors Without Borders warned in its report that the situation in Myanmar could worsen after the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria cut funding worldwide because of a shortfall in donations.

    The money was expected to provide HIV drugs for 46,500 people in Myanmar and help treat another 10,000 sickened by drug-resistant tuberculosis, the report said.

    Cases of tuberculosis — a major killer of HIV patients — in Myanmar are nearly triple the global rate, as difficult-to-treat forms of the disease that do not respond to common treatment surge.

    In 2009, the U.N. estimated 240,000 people were infected with HIV and about 18,000 were dying from it annually in Myanmar, which has one of the world's worst health systems.

    Doctors Without Borders provides antiretroviral drugs to about 23,000 people at 23 clinics nationwide, funding more than half of all HIV treatment being provided to nearly 40,000 patients, said Peter Paul de Groote, who heads the organization's Myanmar operation.

    Myanmar receives a fraction of the international aid provided elsewhere, largely because many nations did not support the former reclusive military government that ruled for nearly half a century. But last year, a nominally civilian government took office and launched unexpected reforms that have been applauded by the international community.

    "Regardless of what is happening in the country, the people that are in need of treatment, need treatment," de Groote said by phone. "Of course, we all hope that the developments as they seem to be going in that direction will lead to more money into the country, but, in general, I think this money should be coming in regardless of what the situation is."

     

    6 comments

    • PAIAS
      PAIAS  •  Kahului, Hawaii  •  3 mths ago
      Destroy Aspirin...and do like ChikO said...
    • Robert
      Robert  •  3 mths ago
      I've got a whole three years worth of meds saved up! But I ain't giving one dang pill up!
    • ChikeO
      ChikeO  •  3 mths ago
      Stop engaging in gay sex. Stop participating in casual sex. Stop cheating on your spouses and these diseases will go away much faster than if one was to have enough funds to provide enough drugs for every HIV infected individual. Improved moral behavior amongst the US masses will create a greater positive effect on the American economy than if the US government was able to squeeze another 50 billion borrowed dollars from China and Japan.
      • MichaelB
        MichaelB 3 mths ago
        Quarantine and euthanizing is the best way to stop AIDS. All junkies, tramps and queers should be executed!
      • cj
        cj 3 mths ago
        Ignorant xenophobes should be neutered.
    • Herpesmeet.com
      Herpesmeet.com  •  3 mths ago
      No matter when don't give up even if you get herpes or any other stds.Because there are many people like you in the world.To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world. Here -maybe you can find the miracle.
    • chris
      chris  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Hillary wanted to promise them some drugs after her trip, but had to explain that Obama's reelection was the top priority for this administration. Just hang in there guys, like the Syrians, till he loses in November.
    • S
      S  •  Irvine, California  •  3 mths ago
      It's all because folk travelling back and forth decided to Hook-Up with ramdom folk, and placed their hands on everybody's body.Passing diseases and being promiscuous. Then boarded and aircraft a few day's later and returned to where they came from. Not only do they not remember the persons name they placed their hands on, but now back home looking to place their hands on some New persons body. Leaving more damage behind .Why were their hands on folk knowing full well they were not going to be around shortly after. The best GIFT you can pass along is keeping your hands to yourself so another person will be disease free for a mate will WILL be around !
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