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Partners Local partners include Médecins sans Frontières (Holland), Médecins du Monde, World Vision, CARE and Save the Children, as well as UN agencies. PSI/Myanmar also coordinates with the Myanmar Medical Association and the Ministry of Health. PSI/Myanmar’s Sun Quality Health (SQH) network is comprised of over 800 particularly valuable partners. Private physicians across Myanmar are trained and monitored by PSI/Myanmar on the provision of reproductive health services and treatment for malaria, TB, pneumonia and sexually transmitted infections. Current Donors The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Danida, a large anonymous donor, the United States Agency for International Development, UNFPA, UNICEF, and the Three Diseases Fund. HIV/AIDS and STIs PSI/Myanmar operates two voluntary testing and counseling centers and 10 drop-in-centers that provide educational activities and clinical services for female sex workers and men who have sex with men. Management of sexually-transmitted infections is offered through the SQH network and at drop-in center clinics using Cur-U pre-packaged treatment kits. PSI/Myanmar also deploys outreach workers to conduct educational sessions with clients of sex-workers. Since the launch of Aphaw in 1996, annual condom sales have risen from 400,000 to approximately 20 million in 2007. PSI/Myanmar has also introduced products such as feel for women and feel for men condoms targeted toward Myanmar’s highest-risk groups. Malaria PSI/Myanmar’s malaria programming includes behavior
change communication to enhance knowledge and appropriate preventative behaviors. SupaTab insecticide treatment tablets are used to treat bednets for malaria prevention and Sure brand rapid diagnostic test kits and malaria treatment are made available by SQH providers. Sure’s artesunate combination therapy
will be replaced by the WHO-recommended
Coartem, branded as Malarpack, in 2008. Reproductive Health In 2007, SQH providers conducted approximately 860,000 reproductive health consultations.
PSI/Myanmar makes the following products available via retailers, pharmacists and SQH providers: male and female condoms, daily contraceptive pills, one- and three-month injectable contraception, intrauterine devices and emergency contraception. Child Survival/Diarrheal Disease WaterGuard provides a simple, cost-effective
means of preventing diarrhea, cholera, typhoid and other waterborne diseases. Tuberculosis PSI/Myanmar introduced DOTS into the SQH
network in 2004 and continues to scale up
services. To date, 415 SQH providers have
registered more than 11,500 TB cases and
achieved a treatment success rate of approximately
80%. Pneumonia As an extension of services provided by SQH doctors, a pneumonia treatment program was launched in early 2008 and offers treatment (Trimox brand products) to children under five. |
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