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Context:
"Myanmar remains one of the 34 countries
worldwide that have the highest burden of chronic
malnutrition, where more than one third (35.1
percent) of children under 5 are stunted and 7.9
percent are acutely malnourished. Myanmar is also
one of the world
?
s 22 high tuberculosis (TB) burden
countries, with a TB prevalence rate three times
higher than the global average and one of the highest
in Asia. The country remains in all three lists for TB
High Burden Countries (TB HBCs): TB, TB/HIV and
multi
-
drug resistant TB (MDR
-
TB), with people aged
under 15 years constituted 26 percent of more than
138,300 new and relapse TB cases during 2014.
Myanmar is also one of the world
?
s 27 high MDR
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TB
burden countries, and the MDR
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TB rate among new
cases is the highest in South East Asia. In 2014,
around 210,000 people were estimated to live with
HIV (PLHIV) in Myanmar, and in spite of 33 percent
decrease in the number of deaths by AIDS,
an estimated 10,000 people died of AIDS related
illnesses in the same year. Although HIV prevalence in
Myanmar has been in declining phase, it remains very
high especially in people who inject drugs (23.1
percent), in men having sex with men (6.6 percent),
and female sex workers (6.3 percent)..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (WFP)
Date of Publication:
2016-04-00
Date of entry:
2016-05-18
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English
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