How Does Hiv Affect Buma?
Question by tiffanykurl3: How does Hiv affect Buma?
I am doing a presentation. So i need lots of info and facts and maybe statistics
1. Education
2. Poverty/ employments status
3. mobility/ migration
4. access to health services.
Basically how does those contribute to the spread of Hiv in Burma. And i need facts to back it up
Best answer:
Answer by norton g
tiffanykurl3 – You can reference much material by doinbg a Yahoo or Google search for – Burma +HIV HIV/AIDS in Burma (Myanmar) is in great need and very troublesome.
HIV/AIDS is recognised as a disease of concern by the Ministry of Health and is a major social and health issue in the country. In 2005, the estimated adult HIV prevalence rate in Burma was 1.3% (200,000 – 570,000 people. Different strains of HIV are believed to have originated from Burma, along heroin trafficking routes.
IV drug users (IDU) (43%), along with miners (who often become infected through drug use) and sex workers (32%), are most likely to be infected with HIV. At least half of the 300,000 to 500,000 drug users in Burma are IDUs, and Burma is a major regional supplier of heroin and methamphetamines. The government, in 2005, spent USD$ 137,120 on HIV, while international donors (the governments of Norway, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Sweden) donated USD$ 27,711,813 towards HIV programmes in Burma. Burma (ranked 51 out of 166 countries) has one of Asia’s highest adult HIV prevalence rates. An estimated 20,000 (range of 11,000 to 35,000) die from HIV/AIDS annually.
According to the report named “Preventable Fate”, published by Doctors without Borders, 25,000 Burmese AIDS patients died in 2007, deaths that could largely have been prevented by anti retorviral therapy (ART) drugs and proper treatment. There was simply not enough money coming in from the government or from outside donors, and people are too poor to afford the treatment themselves. MSF had to restrict the number of new cases it could treat in Burma in 2008.
Pushed to its limit by the lack of treatment on offer by other care providers, MSF has recently been forced to make the painful decision to drastically reduce the number of new patients it can treat. By 2008 MSF itself had become the major health provider of antiretroviral Therapy (ART) drugs and treatment in Burma, not the government or any public or private medical institution. It gave antiretroviral Therapy, essential for surviving AIDS, to about 11,000 people, while over 70,000 people need the treatment. However, less than 20% of HIV/AIDS patients receive the treatment necessary.
Burma’s government spends the least percentage of its GDP on health care of any country in the world, and international donor organizations give less to Burma, per capita, than any other country except India. Unsafe medical practices, like the reuse of unsterilized equipment, as well as insufficient blood screening, has also been a source of infection. Also, the relative lack of accessible health care in conflict areas along the Burmese border make it difficult for AIDS patients to seek medical help. Interruptions in supply and delivery of ART lead to drug resistance and could lead to new strains of HIV.
The criminal nature of sex work in Burma, contributes to the ineffectiveness of reaching out to sex workers in Burma with regard to HIV/AIDS awareness and condom usage. In Yangon, there are over 100 brothels and up to 10,000 sex workers, mostly of the Bamar ethnic group, with between 70 to 90% having a history of sexually transmitted infections and less than 25% having been tested for HIV. An anecdotal study found that nearly half of sex workers in Yangon have HIV/AIDS.
According to the report named “Preventable Fate”, published by Doctors without Borders (also known as MSF), 25,000 Burmese AIDS patients died in 2007, deaths that could largely have been prevented by anti retorviral therapy (ART) drugs and proper treatment. There was simply not enough money coming in from the government or from outside donors, and people are too poor to afford the treatment themselves. MSF had to restrict the number of new cases it could treat in Burma in 2008.
Pushed to its limit by the lack of treatment on offer by other care providers, MSF has recently been forced to make the painful decision to drastically reduce the number of new patients it can treat.
Less than 20% of HIV/AIDS patients receive the treatment necessary.
Burma’s government spends the least percentage of its GDP on health care of any country in the world, and international donor organizations give less to Burma, per capita, than any other country except India. Unsafe medical practices, like the reuse of unsterilized equipment, as well as insufficient blood screening, has also been a source of infection. Also, the relative lack of accessible health care in conflict areas along the Burmese border make it difficult for AIDS patients to seek medical help. The criminal nature of sex work in Burma, as it is prohibited by the Suppression of Prostitution Act in 1949, also contributes to the ineffectiveness of reaching out to sex workers in Burma with regard to HIV/AIDS awareness and condom usage.
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