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BurmaNet News

BurmaNet News is an online newspaper that offers general coverage of news and opinion on Burma from around the world.

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Special Features

Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative Web features available online at different locations:

Burma: Country in Crisis

Voices of '88

Impressions from a Burma in Exile

Resource Links

Note: The following is not a comprehensive list of Burma-related health resources. If your organization, group, or website is not listed below, please contact us at burma@sorosny.org.

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Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger works in over 40 countries, specializing in emergency situations of war, conflict, and natural disasters, and longer term assistance to people in distress.

CARE International (Myanmar)
CARE's portfolio includes projects in agriculture, reproductive and integrated health, as well as basic and girls' education.

Center for Public Health and Human Rights
The Center for Public Health and Human Rights (CPHHR) at Johns Hopkins University was established to examine the impact of human rights violations on the general health of populations. The CPHHR is involved in three primary areas—education, research, and advocacy.

Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in nearly 70 countries.

Mae Tao Clinic
Dr. Cynthia Maung's clinic provides many levels of medical services to refugees along the Thailand-Burma border, including education of scores of medics each year, a reproductive health care and family planning clinic, pre- and postnatal care, and education programs aimed at disease prevention, particularly for HIV/AIDS.

Marie Stopes International (Myanmar)
Marie Stopes International operates three centers in Myanmar that provide family planning counseling.

Online Burma Library - Health
The Online Burma Library provides links to medical texts and health resources.

Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) promotes health by protecting human rights. Using medical and scientific methods, PHR investigates and exposes violations of human rights worldwide.

Save the Children, UK (Myanmar)
In Myanmar, Save the Children focuses on early childhood education, child protection, environmental hygiene promotion, and HIV/AIDS.

UN Development Program (Burma)
UNDP work in Myanmar focuses on programs with grassroots-level impact in the areas of basic health, training and education, HIV/AIDS, the environment, and food security.

UNICEF (Burma)
UNICEF has helped initiate several programs to protect children and expanded programs to support development of rural health services, basic education for children, and community water supply and sanitation systems. The organization has recently supported HIV/AIDS prevention, early childhood development, and child protection programs in Burma.

World Health Organization
The World Health Organization is the UN's specialized agency for health. WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.

World Vision (Myanmar)
World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization working alongside farming families in Myanmar by teaching them new agricultural techniques that will increase harvests and help them better provide for their children.

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