In this clip from a UNFPA Myanmar documentary film, women talk about gender equality and women’s rights in Myanmar.
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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.”
နန္းဆုိင္ဟာေက်ာင္းဆက္တက္ခြင့္မရခဲ့လုိ႔ အနာဂါတ္အတြက္ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္မဲ့ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အသက္ေမြးပညာရပ္ကုိ သင္ယူေလ့လာခြင့္ရၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ ရပ္ရြာအက်ိဳးကုိ တက္ၾကြစြာ သယ္ပုိးတဲ့ လူငယ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္တစ္ဦးျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။ “အခုေတာ့ က်မရဲ႕အနာဂါတ္ကုိက်မကုိယ္တုိင္ အေကာင္းဆုံးပုံေဖာ္တတ္ေနပါၿပီ။”
Kyae wants a second child. Just not yet. “My job and my income are important to me too”, she says.
Thanks to voluntary family planning, millions of women in Myanmar are empowered to decide how many children to have, and when to have them.
ကိမ္ႏုိင္ ဒုတိယေျမာက္ရင္ေသြး ရယူလုိပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အခ်ိန္ယူေနဆဲပါပဲ။ “အလုပ္နဲ႔ဝင္ေငြ ဖူလုံမႈကလည္း က်မအတြက္ အေရးႀကီးတယ္ေလ။”
မိမိဆႏၵအေလ်ာက္ ရင္ေသြးရယူႏုိင္သည့္ မိသားစုစီမံကိန္းေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရွိ အမ်ိဳးသမီးသန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာက မည္သည့္အခ်ိန္မွာရင္ေသြးရယူမည္ကုိ ကုိယ္တုိင္ကိုယ္ပုိင္ ဆုံးျဖတ္ေနၾကပါၿပီ။
When Hlei was pregnant with her third child, the midwife detected a serious complication. Every year, 2,800 women in Myanmar die in childbirth and pregnancy, but Hlei survived. The correct diagnosis by a skilled midwife made the difference between life and death.