Britain to help Myanmar fight HIV/AIDS ( Xinhua via COMTEX ) October 14, 2002


options

Britain to help Myanmar fight HIV/AIDS

YANGON, Oct 14, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX)

Britain has decided to help Myanmar fight HIV/AIDS with some related projects planned for the next three years, local newspaper Myanmar Times reported Monday.

An aid of 15 million US dollars would be extended through United Nations agencies for use in the planned projects under the UN-Myanmar Joint Action Plan on the disease, the British embassy in Yangon was quoted as saying.Meanwhile, the World Food Program is also working out a 4.7- million-dollar project next year involving a program to feed AIDS- infected orphans..

At present, under Myanmar's National AIDS Program, a 1.7- million-dollar project to promote 100-percent condom use in 10 townships in the country is also being funded by the UN Population Fund..

According to the UN AIDS agency in Myanmar, the country needs 34 million dollars for the planned projects in the current fiscal year, of which about one third had been extended..

HIV/AIDS is recognized as one of the three priority communicable diseases inMyanmar. The other two are malaria and tuberculosis.According to the World Health Organization, 3,817 AIDS cases were reported and 510,000 HIV infections estimated in Myanmar by the end of 2000 with 760 cases per 100,000 people..

Burmatoday do not take any responsibility for news content. Copyrights of news articles remain with the respective news agencies or reporter[s].

©2001-2003 Burma Today All Right Reserved Graphic Design : burmatoday2002@yahoo.com