Thirty-four students went to the hospital with what appeared to be food poisoning after eating ice cream sold by a local producer in Ayeyarwady Region on Tuesday.
Stigmatization of condom use remains a problem; maternal mortality rate still unacceptably high
Elliot Brennan examines Myanmar’s health system, its successes and challenges.
Kachin women displaced by civil war lack access to effective family planning—crucial to navigate the hardships of camp life.
Nursing students who protested delayed licensing reach an agreement with the health ministry after an informal meeting of the two parties.
Twenty new patients in four provinces in Thailand have contracted the mosquito-borne Zika virus, but the situation remains under control, according to the public health ministry.
The Burmese embassy in Singapore confirms that a Burmese citizen is infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
The northern Thai city is at risk from the Zika virus, after seven cases were identified elsewhere in the province.
Rights activists from the Naga Self-Administered Zone call for more aid to the victims of a deadly measles outbreak that has claimed 42 lives—including 29 children.
Children infected with HIV/AIDS, or those who lost parents to the disease, often lack money to continue education and face discrimination if they do.
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