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  1. An immunisation clinic in Ali Boke, Myanmar, March 27, 2012. ALERTNET/GAVI Chris Endean

    Vaccination days are cause for celebration in Myanmar

    26 April 2012 16:32 BST | Comments (0)

    Nilgun Aydogan | Aid Worker Diaries

    Midwives will track down missing children to ensure everyone gets measles jab in rural Myanmar

  2. Photo: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

    Championing safer motherhood in Myanmar

    07 March 2012 17:13 GMT | Comments (0)

    Health Poverty Action | The Word on Women

    One of the gravest global inequalities can be seen in women’s access to maternal health care. 99% of maternal deaths occur in...

  3. Yadana Htun receives her end of course certificate from Mathieu Robbins and Lisa Essex, Thomson Reuters Foundation course trainers.

    Writing and Reporting News: Thomson Reuters Foundation makes the world smaller for journalists

    03 November 2011 09:59 GMT | Comments (1)

    Yadana Htun | TrustMedia Alumni Blog

    On the first day of Thomson Reuters Foundation’s training course Writing and Reporting News in October, I met 13 journalists ...

  4. Rohingya children from Myanmar carry water from a pond, with the mountains of Myanmar seen behind, at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar. REUTERS file photo by Andrew Biraj

    No rights for stateless Rohingya fleeing Burma

    23 August 2011 11:15 BST | Comments (2)

    Melanie Teff | AlertNet News Blog

    The Rohingya have no rights in Myanmar, and their lives are made impossible by such practices as forced labor, displacement ...

  5. Myanmar's children help build safer schools after Cyclone Nargis

    03 May 2011 15:53 BST | Comments (0)

    Plan Asia, Warisara Sornpet | Asia Views

    See how hardest-hit coastal communities of Laputta township cope nearly three years after Nargis killed an estimated 140,000 ...

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