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From sex workers to HIV patients, Myanmar unrest poses huge health risks

3 Min Read KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Political turmoil in Myanmar poses “huge risks” to the health of vulnerable people including sex workers and HIV patients, aid groups said, warning that medical supplies could be disrupted as the public healthcare system struggles to operate normally. The Southeast Asian nation plunged into crisis after the army ousted Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government in a Feb. 1 coup, declaring a year-long state of emergency that has sparked strikes and protests - including by doctors. Myanmar’s public hospitals and clinics, which were already under pressure due to COVID-19, are in disarray, according to medical charities, who said they were struggling to help the rising number of people turning to them for treatment.

The New Humanitarian | Syria s tragedy, Myanmar returns, and missing Magufuli: The Cheat Sheet

On our radar Syria’s decade of devastation Next week marks 10 years since demonstrations against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were met with force, and an uprising that was part of the so-called “Arab Spring” spiralled into a long and brutal war. It is a conflict that has been marked, at different stages, by sieges, starvation, bombing, street fighting, chemical attacks, the destruction of hospitals, the manipulation of much-needed humanitarian aid. Diplomacy has largely failed, entire cities and towns have been destroyed, and more than 12 million people have been forced to flee their homes, either becoming refugees or displaced people in their own country. Nobody knows exactly how many people have killed, although most agree that the number long ago surpassed 470,000. That doesn’t include lives lost to disease, hunger, or the children who have frozen to death in their tents. Pretty much every aid and advocacy group has a new report or statement about t

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