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Mongphyat NLD resignations & HIV/AI



Subject: Re: Mongphyat NLD resignations & HIV/AIDS statistics

Feb 9 must have been a busy day in Mongphyat township.  Here's a list of
the numbers of NLD members resigning 'on their own volition', as reported
in the New Light of Myanmar over the last few months.  
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9-2-99			143	NLM (22-02-99)		
9-2-99			161	NLM (02-03-99)
9-2-99			151	NLM (08-03-99)
9-2-99			   55	NLM (23-04-99)
9-2-99			   55	NLM (27-04-99)
9-2-99			   58	NLM (02-05-99)
9-2-99			   57	NLM (07-05-99)
9-2-99			   58	NLM (16-05-99)
9-2-99			   57	NLM (25-05-99)
9-2-99			   57	NLM (12-06-99)
9-2-99			   58     NLM (05-07-99)
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Recommendation to the Editor of the New Light of Myanmar:
Start to concentrate on some real statistics, if you must play the numbers
game.  Tell the people the truth about the implications of the HIV/AIDS
statistics as reported by Health Minister Ket Sein last week.  Between .7%
and .97% of potential blood donors are reported as testing HIV positive in
Rangoon and Mandalay "last September".  Alarm bells are beginning to sound
"now".  There is an HIV/AIDS crisis.  Not 17,000 but at least 400,000 HIV
positive and 50,000 with AIDS, as the research has been indicating for
several years now.  How long have blood donor samples been tested for HIV? 
Have you warned those who may have been infected by receiving infected
blood before that time?  Time to stop your meaningless political numbers
games and to begin to be responsible to the people.

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> From: OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx
> To: burmanet2-l@xxxxxxxx; burmanet-l@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Mongphyat Township NLD
> Date: July 5, 1999 1:53 AM
> 
> Mongphyat Township NLD
> 
> YANGON, 4 July-Fifty-eight members resigned from the National League for 
> Democracy of Mongphyat Township, Shan State (East) State.
> 
> 
> Fifty-eight members of Mongphyat Township NLD, Shan State (East) State,
of 
> their own volition, resigned by sending letters of resignation to
Mongphyat 
> Township Multiparty Democracy General Election Commission and the party 
> concerned on 9 February 1999 as they no longer wished to participate in
party 
> politics of NLD.
> 
> ------------------------

HIV Found among Myanmar Blood Donors

               Xinhua
               02-JUL-99

               YANGON (July 2) XINHUA - HIV has been found among
               blood donors in Myanmar after they went through blood

               test
               in hospitals where HIV test kits are provided, said a
               high-ranking Myanmar health official.

               Blood testing indicated that HIV has been found in 0.7
               percent of blood donors in Yangon and 0.97 percent in
               Mandalay, two major cities in the country, said Myanmar
               Minister of Health Major-General Ket Sein Thursday.

               At a meeting here of Myanmar's Central Committee to
               Control and Combat AIDS (CCCC AIDS), Ket Sein, who is
               also the committee's chairman, emphasized the need to
               organize more HIV-free blood donors to reduce the
               percentage of HIV-carrying blood donors.

               He said HIV can be found in various categories of men in
               various states and divisions though the incidence may
               vary.

               He urged medical officers in the country to speed up
               efforts
               to fight the disease.

               Myanmar CCCC AIDS was first formed in 1989 and
               reorganized in 1998 for consolidation and effectiveness.

               The Myanmar government annually allocates about 13
               million Kyats (43,000 U.S. dollars) for implementing AIDS
               programs identified in the country's National Health
               Plan.

               According to available official figures, there were
               17,846 HIV
               cases and 2,337 AIDS cases in Myanmar by the end of
               1997. The figures for 1998 have not been published yet.

               Meanwhile, Myanmar is also participating actively in
               regional
               AIDS control projects of the Association of Southeast
               Asian
               Nations through exchange of information, organization of
               meetings and cooperation.

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