“We #midwives help you claim your right to #SafeBirth and #FamilyPlanning.” On International Day of the Midwife, celebrate midwives as the defenders of women’s rights in #Myanmar. #IDM2019
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Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay by standing up for the rights of women and girls in #Myanmar with #feminist Ramanathan Balakrishnan, UNFPA Representative for Myanmar.
Did you ever do something you regretted deeply? Sithu did. He was in love, and he had unsafe sex. He was 19 when he contracted #HIV. Watch his story and learn how to protect yourself.
သင့္ဘ၀မွာ အခ်ိန္လြန္မွ ေနာင္တအႀကီးအက်ယ္ရခဲ့တဲ့ အမွားမ်ိဳး သင္လုပ္ဖူးပါသလား။ လူငယ္တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္တဲ့ စည္သူကေတာ့ အမွားလုပ္ခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။ လူငယ္ပီပီ ခ်စ္သူရည္းစားထားတယ္။ ခ်စ္သူဘ၀မွာ ေဘးကင္းလုံျခဳံမႈမရွိတဲ့ လိင္ဆက္ဆံမႈေၾကာင့္ စည္သူ HIV ပုိး ကူးစက္ခံလုိက္ရပါတယ္။ အဲ့ဒီတုန္းက စည္သူ ၁၉ႏွစ္ပဲရွိပါေသးတယ္။ လူငယ္ေတြလည္း စည္သူရဲ႕ ဘ၀အေၾကာင္းကို သင္ခန္းစာယူၿပီး မိမိကုိယ္ကုိ ကာကြယ္ႏုိင္ဖုိ႔ ေလ့လာရပါမယ္။
In this clip from a UNFPA Myanmar documentary film, women talk about gender equality and women’s rights in Myanmar.
When the mobile reproductive health team arrives, the Myanmar village clinic is already bursting. The word has spread on Facebook Messenger: Today, they are bringing contraceptive implants!
မ်ိဳးဆက္ပြားက်န္းမာေရးဆုိင္ရာ ေဆးကုသေပးေရးအဖြဲ႕ ေရာက္လာတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ ေက်းရြာေဆးခန္းေလးဟာ ေနရာလြတ္မက်န္ေအာင္ လူအုပ္ႀကီးနဲ႔ျပည့္က်ပ္လုိ႔ေနပါၿပီ။ အေၾကာင္းရင္းကေတာ့ ေဖ့ဘြတ္ခ္မက္ဆင္ဂ်ာကေန မိဘျပည္သူေတြကုိ ဒီလုိသတင္းေကာင္းေပးထားလုိ႔ပါပဲ။ “လက္ေမာင္းအေရျပားေအာက္ ထည့္သြင္းအသုံးျပဳရတဲ့ သားဆက္ျခားနည္းလမ္းေတြ ဒီကေန႔ ရြာေဆးခန္းမွာ ရႏုိင္ၿပီေနာ္။”
ေ၀းလံေခါင္ဖ်ားတဲ့ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္မွာေနထုိင္ၾကတဲ့ မိန္းကေလး သူငယ္ခ်င္းတစ္ဖြဲ႔ဟာ မိသားစုစီမံကိန္းအေၾကာင္းကုိေဆြးေႏြးေမးျမန္းႏုိင္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ ကားငယ္ေလး တစ္စီးငွားၿပီး မိန္းကေလးငယ္ေတြ ေဆးခန္းေလးဆီကုိေရာက္လုိ႔လာပါတယ္။ ေဆးခန္းကအျပန္မွာေတာ့ သူငယ္ခ်င္းတစ္သုိက္ ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ပါးပါး ၿမိဳ႕ေလးအတြင္းမွာ ေလွ်ာက္လည္ၾကပါမယ္။
One day, a group of girlfriends in Myanmar’s remote Chin State borrowed a pickup van. They were going on a day trip to find out more about contraceptives and to have a fun day in town.
Without an education, Nang Sai had little hope for her future in Myanmar. But through vocational training, she turned herself into a leader. “Now I am creating my own destiny.”