This article assessed maternal health service coverage and the impact of human rights violations in eastern Burma, specifically among communities in Shan, Mon, Karen, andRead More »Access To Essential Maternal Health Interventions and Human Rights Violations among Vulnerable Communities in Eastern Burma
For over 50 years, Burma/Myanmar’s ethnic areas lacked access to basic health services due to military rule. Ethnic health organizations (EHOs) and community-based health organizationsRead More »Human resources for health: task shifting to promote basic health service delivery among internally displaced people in ethnic health program service areas in eastern Burma/Myanmar
In these eastern areas of Burma, standard public health indicators such as population pyramids, infant mortality rates, child mortality rates, and maternal mortality ratios moreRead More »Chronic Emergency: Health and Human Rights in Eastern Burma
This report highlights findings from a health and human rights survey in 21 conflict-affected townships of eastern Burma. Child and maternal mortality rates far exceedRead More »Diagnosis: Critical Health and Human Rights in Eastern Burma
This HISWG-led 2013 survey, spanning 64 townships and 456,786 people, highlights severe health challenges in Eastern Burma’s conflict-affected areas, including high child mortality and preventableRead More »The Long Road to Recovery
This report illustrates the crucial role played by ethnic and community-based health organizations (ECBHOs) in delivering healthcare to remote, conflict-affected areas of Eastern Burma. BasedRead More »THE LONG JOURNEY…Health, Politics and Human Rights in Eastern Burma
The 2025 Ethnic Health Research and Development Seminar held at Mae Sot, Thailand, focused on addressing health system challenges in conflict-affected and disrupted areas alongRead More »Ethnic Health Research and Development Seminar Report 2025