Child and youth health
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
"The Burma Children Medical Fund (BCMF) is a program dedicated to raising money for children from Burma with serious medical problems who are disadvantaged as a result of the political turmoil in Burma. On this website you will find a brief introduction to the situation along the Thai-Burma border and at the Mae Tao Clinic; see pictures of children you can help; read about the medical conditions that BCMF funds treatment for and see how donations are managed and used.
BCMF is currently expanding its program to include special adult and women?s cases. Please see Burma Adult Medical Fund (BAMF) and Women?s Gynaecological Surgery Fund (WGSF) for more information.
Source/publisher:
Burma Children Medical Fund
Date of entry/update:
2012-12-26
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Individual Documents
Summary:
""In the camp, food rations were reduced, and we no longer received bamboo or wood to fix our homes. We faced challenges for our family livelihoods and we had to sneak out of the camp to go collect...
Description:
""In the camp, food rations were reduced, and we no longer received bamboo or wood to fix our homes. We faced challenges for our family livelihoods and we had to sneak out of the camp to go collect wood and bamboo. This is why I decided to return to Myanmar.”
Naw Y---, a recently repatriated refugee
Between February 20th and 23rd 2019, more than 500 men, women and children from five refugee camps, including Karenni refugee camps, in Thailand, returned to Myanmar.[1] This third refugee repatriation process was facilitated by the Thai and Myanmar governments, the UNHCR, and other humanitarian aid organisations. To shed light on this process and understand how resettled refugees are adjusting to their new lives, KHRG conducted interviews with 13 repatriated refugees in Mae La Way Ler Moo (Mae La Hta)[2] and Lay Hpa Htaw[3] resettlement sites in March and April 2019. These refugees – six men and seven women – came from Nu Poe, Ban Don Yang (Thaw Pa) and Mae La (Beh Klaw) refugee camps. KHRG also interviewed three local leaders responsible for the resettlement sites from the Karen National Union (KNU) and the KNU/KNLA Peace Council (KNU/KNLA-PC).
The testimonies of the recently repatriated refugees reveal a stark reality. The journey to their new homes was spent cramped in the back of dusty trucks, without enough food or water. A lack of basic social services, agricultural lands and income-generating opportunities awaited them on their arrival to resettlement sites. Resettled refugees are also concerned by the close proximity of Tatmadaw army camps to their new homes, and by the fact that the land surrounding resettlement sites is contaminated by unexploded ordnances (UXOs)..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-21
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) reports, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma, Food Security in Karen (Kayin) State, Internal displacement/forced migration of Karen villagers, Land confiscation for military, commercial and other purposes, Educational resources and materials (Burma- and non-Burma-related), Child and youth health
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Description:
"This story is about a patient who came to our Jungle School of Medicine in Karen State. She came from her home in a jungle village to our clinic, where she learned from our doctor that her condition needed more advanced treatment. We brought her to Thailand, where our patient care team, which is a combination of western volunteers and Karen people, acted as her guides, caretakers and counselors through what must have been a very frightening and lonely experience: without family in a strange country, surrounded by strange machines, and with her body gradually shutting down..."
Source/publisher:
Free Burma Rangers
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-14
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Child and youth health, Kayin (Karen) State
Language:
English
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Description:
"The
Government
of
Myanmar
has
demonstrated
their
interest
and
commitment
to
promoting
and
protecting
breast
feeding
and
to
improve
Maternal,
Infant
and
Child
Health
and
Nutrition
with
the
launching
of
Scaling
Up
Nutrition(SUN)
Movement
in
2013
and
the
adoption
of
a
new
Food
Law
?The
Order
of
Marketing
of
Formulated
Food
for
infant
and
Young
Child”
(OMFFIYC)
in
2014. The
SUN
Movement
is
a
global
movement
founded
on
the
principle
that
all
people
have
a
right
to
food
and
good
nutrition
and
it
unites
people
from
government,
civil
society,
United
Nations,
donors,
businesses
and
researchers
in
a
collective
effort
to
improve
nutrition
and
eradicate
malnutrition.
In
February,
2014,
the
SUN
Movement
partnered
with
the
Civil
Society
Alliance
(CSA),
a
sectorial
network
of
NGO?s
and
CBO?s,
for
addressing
food
security
and
nutrition
and
to
confirm
active
engagement
of
executive
level
political
leadership.
With
of
the
adoption
of
the
new
National
Food
Law
(OMFFIYC),
the
Government
of
Myanmar
is
striving:
(1)
to
support
and
protect
breastfeeding
for
infants
and
young
children
(2)
to
ensure
appropriate
use
of
breast-‐milk
substitutes,
if
necessary
and
to
introduce
proper
complementary
foods
at
the
right
time
to
infants
and
(3)
to
publish
correct
and
adequate
information
and
to
monitor
the
marketing
of
formulated
breast
milk
substitutes
and
complementary
foods.".....Paper delivered at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015.
Thelma Tun Thein
Source/publisher:
International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015
Date of publication:
2015-08-26
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-19
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Reproductive Health/Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Child and youth health, Nutrition, International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies (ICBMS) 23-26 July, 2015
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Source/publisher:
Ministry of Health
Date of publication:
2012-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2015-06-28
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Child and youth health
Language:
English and Burmese
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Description:
Executive Summary:
"This child health strategy (2010-2014) document is prepared as a guidance for
achieving MDG 4 to reduce under-five mortality by two thirds of the level in 1990 by the
end of 2015 in Myanmar. The strategy was prepared through a consultative process using
a process comprising of several steps:
(a) short program review by 60 participants from national, and other levels
including townships, INGOs, national NGOs and UN in September 2009.
(b) bilateral discussions of WHO and UNICEF with concerned counterparts
in Department of Health (DOH) and key partners (national and
international) for consensus building in October 2009.
(c) strategic plan development workshop with 70 participants, international
experts and academia organized jointly by DOH, UNICEF and WHO
in October 2009.
(d) draft strategic plan development by Ministry of Health (MOH), WHO and
UNICEF incorporating literature review.
(e) peer review of the draft with revisions and
(f) a consensus meeting..."
Source/publisher:
Women and Child Health Development Section, Ministry of Health
Date of publication:
2013-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2015-06-26
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Child and youth health
Language:
English
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Description:
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
2009-2010.....Contents:
Summary Table of Findings i
Contents iii
List of Tables v
List of Figures vii
List of Abbreviations viii
Acknowledgements ix
Executive Summary xi
I. Introduction 1
Background 1
Survey Objectives 3
II. Sample and Survey Methodology 4
Sample Design 4
Questionnaires 4
Training and Fieldwork 5
Data Processing 7
III. Sample Coverage and the Characteristics of Households and Respondents 8
Sample Coverage 8
Characteristics of Households 8
Characteristics of Respondents 10
IV. Child Mortality 11
V. Nutrition 14
Nutritional Status 14
Breastfeeding 16
Vitamin A Supplements 20
Low Birth Weight 21
VI. Child Health 24
Immunization 24
Tetanus Toxoid 26
Oral Rehydration Treatment 27
Care Seeking and Antibiotic Treatment of Pneumonia 29
Solid Fuel Use 31
VII. Environment 32
Water and Sanitation 32
VIII. Reproductive Health 36
Contraception 36
Antenatal Care 36
Assistance at Delivery 38
Myanmar Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2009 - 2010
iv
IX. Child Development 40
X. Education 42
Pre-School Attendance and School Readiness 42
Primary and Secondary School Participation 43
Young Female Literacy 47
XI. Child Protection 48
Birth Registration 48
Early Marriage 49
Orphans and Children?s Living Arrangements 50
XII. HIV/AIDS 52
Knowledge of HIV Transmission 52
List of References 56
Appendix A. Sample Design 124
Appendix B. List of Personnel Involved in the Survey 130
Appendix C. Estimates of Sampling Errors 134
Appendix D. Data Quality Tables 176
Appendix E. MICS Indicators: Numerators and Denominators 183
Appendix F. Questionnaires
Source/publisher:
Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development; Ministry of Health; United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF)
Date of publication:
2011-09-30
Date of entry/update:
2013-12-27
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Type:
Individual Documents
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5.71 MB
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Description:
"Countdown to 2015 tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality. It calls on governments and development partners to be accountable, identifies knowledge gaps, and proposes new actions to reach Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health...The Countdown country profile presents in one place the best and latest evidence to enable an assessment of progress in improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) and achieving MDGs 4 and 5. The profile presents the most recent available information at the time it was published on selected demographic measures, coverage rates for priority interventions across the continuum of care, and indicators of equity, policy support, human resources, and financial flows. Missing values, or estimates that are more than five years old, indicate an urgent need for concerted action to increase data collection efforts.
The most current Countdown country profile, containing the latest available Myanmar health data on key maternal and child health indicators, was published in June 2012 in Building a Future for Women and Children: The 2012 Report."
Source/publisher:
Countdown
Date of publication:
2012-06-14
Date of entry/update:
2012-06-22
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Child and youth health
Language:
English
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Description:
"In March 2012, Countdown published Accountability for Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival: An update on progress in poor countries. This publication included special one-page Countdown country profiles, customized to showcase core indicators selected in 2011 by the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women?s and Children?s Health."
Source/publisher:
Countdown
Date of publication:
2012-02-29
Date of entry/update:
2012-06-22
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Child and youth health
Language:
English
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Description:
In Myanmar, over 60% of the total population
are women and children. The population is made
up of the Bamar ethnic majority, who live mostly in
the lowlands and central part of the country, and
some 135 different ethnic groups, mainly living in
the highlands and eastern and western borders of
Myanmar. More than 70% of the total population
lives in rural areas. The lowland delta and central
dry zone are highly populated areas.
In 2003, the MOH estimated a crude birth rate
of 24 live births per 1,000 populations in urban areas,
and 26 per 1,000 in rural areas. Intense efforts have
been instigated to improve maternal and newborn
health (MNH) services. Various activities have been
implemented, with particular emphasis on improving
essential obstetric care and post-abortion care.
Although there have been significant improvements
in quality of MNH service delivery, current estimates
indicate that maternal mortality ratio has not declined
to the levels anticipated.
Source/publisher:
World Health Organization, South-East Asia Region
Date of publication:
2003-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-04
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Child and youth health
Language:
English
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Description:
"Most deaths of children under five are preventable or treatable in Myanmar, according to the UN Children?s Fund (UNICEF).
The Under 5 Mortality Survey (2002-2003), conducted by the government and UNICEF, reported the main causes of early death as acute respiratory infection (21.1 percent), brain infection (13.9 percent), diarrhoea (13.4 percent), septicemia (10.7 percent) and prematurity (7.5 percent).
About three-quarters of all deaths occurred in the first year.
"Over two-thirds of child deaths could be prevented by inexpensive but proven high impact services like immunisation, better case management with antibiotics, insecticide-treated bed nets, supplementation of Vitamin A and other micronutrients," Osamu Kunii, chief of health and nutrition at UNICEF, told IRIN in the former Burmese capital, Yangon.
As part of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Myanmar has pledged to reduce its under-five mortality rate by two-thirds by 2015, from 130 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 43.
"To achieve the goals we need more internal efforts and external supports, especially resource mobilisation such as funding," Kunii said, emphasising the importance of better collaboration and coordination between government, UN and NGO partners before 2015..."
Source/publisher:
IrinNews (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
Date of publication:
2009-02-26
Date of entry/update:
2009-03-20
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Child and youth health
Language:
English
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Description:
Search for "Myanmar" -- most useful are the tables.
Source/publisher:
UNICEF
Date of publication:
2008-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2009-02-04
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
ABSTRACT:
OBJECTIVE -
Rubella vaccine is not included in the immunization schedule in Myanmar. Although surveillance for outbreaks of measles and rubella is conducted nationwide, there is no routine surveillance for congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Therefore, we organized a study to assess the burden of CRS...
METHODS -
From 1 December 2000 to 31 December 2002 active surveillance for CRS was conducted among children aged 0?17 months at 13 hospitals and 2 private clinics in Yangon, the capital city. Children with suspected CRS had a standard examination and a blood sample was obtained. All serum samples were tested for rubella-specific IgM; selected samples were tested for rubella-specific IgG and for rubella RNA by reverse transcriptase?polymerase chain reaction (RT?PCR)...
FINDINGS -
A total of 81 children aged 0?17 months were suspected of having CRS. Of these, 18 children had laboratory-confirmed CRS (7 were IgM positive; 7 were RT?PCR positive; and 10 were IgG positive at > 6 months of age). One additional child who tested positive by RT?PCR and whose mother had had rubella during pregnancy but who had a normal clinical examination was classified as having congenital rubella infection. During 2001?02 no rubella outbreaks were detected in Yangon Division. In the 31 urban townships of Yangon Division, the annual incidence was 0.1 laboratory-confirmed cases of CRS per 1000 live births...
CONCLUSION -
This is the first population-based study of CRS incidence from a developing country during a rubella-endemic period; the incidence of CRS is similar to endemic rates found in industrialized countries during the pre-vaccine era. Rubella-specific IgG tests proved practical for diagnosing CRS in children aged > 6 months. This is one of the first studies to report on the use of rubella-specific RT?PCR directly on serum samples; further studies are warranted to confirm the utility of this method as an additional means of diagnosing CRS.
Thant, Kyaw-Zin; Oo, Win-Mar; Myint, Thein-Thein; Shwe, Than-Nu; Han, Aye-Maung; Aye, Khin-Mar; Aye, Kay-Thi; Moe, Kyaw; Thein, Soe; Robertson, Susan E.
Source/publisher:
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, ;84(1):12-20, 2006.
Date of publication:
2005-12-31
Date of entry/update:
2008-04-18
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Child and youth health
Language:
English
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Description:
Part I - Health:
Journey of the Foetus - Health Messenger;
Immunisation - Judith Leblanc, Nurse officer (AMI);
Developmental Milestones and Factors Influencing Childhood Development - Damarice Ager (ARC);
Caring for your Child - Damarice Ager (ARC)...
Part II - Medical:
Immediate Care of the Newborn Infant - Dr. Claudia Turner & Dr. Verena Carrara (SMRU);
Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (Children
Source/publisher:
Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI)
Date of publication:
2007-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2008-02-29
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
"Health Messenger" etc., Child and youth health
Language:
English, Burmese
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2.31 MB
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