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U Nyi Nyi Aung takes a dose of anti-TB medicines, administered as a directly observed treatment by a Pyi Gyi Khin community TB volunteer
12.01.2019
Finding strength and a purpose to live again
U Nyi Nyi Aung lost hope when he was diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), but got his life – and health – back on track thanks...
Partners at the financial reporting and internal controls workshop, Yangon Photo: UNOPS
16.12.2018
Building partners’ capacity: enhancing financial reporting and internal controls
Ensuring all people have access to the quality healthcare services they are entitled to requires efficient implementation of healthcare programmes,...
Dr Zaw Myint, Regional Officer and Senior Consultant TB Specialist, National TB Programme, MOHS, and Dr Faisal Mansoor, Head of Programme, Dan Magambo, Financial Management Specialist, UNOPS-PR, together with UNOPS-PR Field Finance Assistants at the half-yearly review meeting in Yangon. Photo: UNOPS
10.12.2018
Field Finance Assistants half-yearly review meeting
Regular review meetings are essential to promote collaboration and enhance peer-to-peer learning. UNOPS Managed Cash Flow Unit (MCFU) regularly holds...
30.11.2018
World AIDS Day: A partnership between experts to end the HIV epidemic in Myanmar
The Union, a long-standing partner in Myanmar, serves HIV patients as specialist health care providers. Recruiting people living with HIV (PLHIVs) to...
Pyi Gyi Khin ART Programme Officer Dr Waiyan Phyo at Mawlamyine NAP
27.11.2018
Partners observing World AIDS Day: knowing our status together
This year’s World AIDS Day 2018 theme, ‘Know your status’, encourages everyone to know their HIV status. Dr Waiyan Phyo is Pyi Gyi Khin...
Dr Htay Lwin, Deputy Regional Public Health Director, MOHS, Yangon Region, with officials from the Ministry of Health and Sports, UNOPS and participating government health staff from Yangon Region, November 2018.
24.11.2018
Training on ‘Planning, Budgeting, Managed Cash Flow, Procurement Principles and Government Financial Rules to MOHS Staff at the State and Regional Levels’
Over 1,200 government health staff from 17 States and Regions across Myanmar, attended training on topics related to financial management. The...
Group work in progress during the training in Myin Gyan
16.11.2018
Improving local capacity: supporting local partners in financial management
Being accountable is key to an efficient implementation of health programmes supported by the Global Fund, and knowledge of financial control is...
At Pyi Gyi Khin Taunggyi Key Population Service Centre, bin-cards are kept up-to-date, and properly displayed for each drug item. Here, store in-charge Ma Hnin Pwint Soe regularly updates bin cards with information including drug name, dosage, form, batch number and expiry dates. “Bin cards have made my work easier to monitor drug balance.”
28.10.2018
Strengthening local capacity: bin cards for better logistics management
Availability of an adequate quantity of drugs is critical, but how do we know the balance of drug items in the store? Bin cards are part of the...
26.10.2018
Global Fund Partnership Photo Contest
Are you involved in the implementation of a Global Fund-supported grant or program? Do you want others around the world to know how you provide...
Providing key-population-friendly services through key population service centres
21.09.2018
Providing key-population-friendly services through KPSC
Key populations at higher risk of HIV infection, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and sex workers (SWs), are often socially marginalized,...
A team from Pyi Gyi Khin used boats to reach the worst-affected areas.They brought with them HIV medication and basic medical supplies. Photo: Pyi Gyi Khin
06.08.2018
Home delivery of ART in flood-affected Hpa-An
Global Fund sub-recipient Pyi Gyi Khin is determined to help people living with HIV continue their treatment, but the ongoing flooding in Hpa-An is...
MMA PPM-TB Project Manager Dr Thet Naing Maung accepting the Best Paper Award for Health Systems Research on ‘Public-Private Mix tuberculosis control activities in private hospitals in Myanmar: providers' perspectives’ at the 46th Myanmar Health Research Congress, 2018
03.08.2018
Public-Private Mix tuberculosis control activities in private hospitals in Myanmar
In collaboration with the National TB Programme (NTP), a study was carried out by the Myanmar Medical Association, Public-Private Mix Tuberculosis...

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