Context: "Myanmar remains one of the 34 countries worldwide that have the highest burden of chronic malnutrition, where more than one third (35.1 percent) of children under 5 are stunted and 7.9 percent are acutely malnourished. Myanmar is also one of the world ? s 22 high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, with a TB prevalence rate three times higher than the global average and one of the highest in Asia. The country remains in all three lists for TB High Burden Countries (TB HBCs): TB, TB/HIV and multi - drug resistant TB (MDR - TB), with people aged under 15 years constituted 26 percent of more than 138,300 new and relapse TB cases during 2014. Myanmar is also one of the world ? s 27 high MDR - TB burden countries, and the MDR - TB rate among new cases is the highest in South East Asia. In 2014, around 210,000 people were estimated to live with HIV (PLHIV) in Myanmar, and in spite of 33 percent decrease in the number of deaths by AIDS, an estimated 10,000 people died of AIDS related illnesses in the same year. Although HIV prevalence in Myanmar has been in declining phase, it remains very high especially in people who inject drugs (23.1 percent), in men having sex with men (6.6 percent), and female sex workers (6.3 percent)..."