AHRN Myanmar is one of the leading harm reduction organizations and has been operating in Myanmar since 2003. Exclusion then becomes coupled with no access.
AHRN-Myanmar was established in 2003 with the aim to support the people and programmes in Myanmar towards the reduction of drug use-related harms (especially HIV/AIDS, other blood borne infections and over-dose) among people using drugs, their families and loved ones and their communities. AHRN current legal registration base is in Antwerp, Belgium where it is registered as a Foundation. AHRN has
close working relationships with international, regional, national and local government and non-government organisations working in similar or related areas. AHRN is operating under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Health and its registration with the Home Affairs. AHRN is has been one of the principle agencies conducting seminars and workshops, and exposure visits for local and international NGOs and UNs counterparts, to study harm reduction initiatives in other countries in the region. The Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN) has been implementing harm reduction services in Myanmar for over a decade. AHRN specializes in implementing services in border areas, mining towns and armed conflict zones (often a combination of more than one). Due to the challenging nature of these areas, regular health services are generally not available, and when they are, they are very limited. An example of one of these areas is Hpakant Township in Kachin State, a jade mining town with a history of regular and prolonged eruptions of armed conflict. AHRN Drug Use Intervention Corridor
Drug use in Myanmar is closely related to the abundantly available heroine, subsistence day labor at poppy fields and movement of drug using migrant workers, following work opportunities in gold and jade mines. AHRN operates in those areas, which forms AHRN drug use intervention corridors, where there is a logic geographical and epidemiological rationale to be present.
AHRN and Best Shelter organized awareness activities at project sites on World AIDS Day, December 1st.
AHRN (နားခိုရာ)နှင့် Best Shelter (အရိပ်စစ်) အဖွဲ့တို့သည် ကမ္ဘာ့ခုခံအားကျဆင်းမှုရောဂါတိုက်ဖျက်ရေးနေ့တွင် စီမံချက်များတည်ရှိရာ ကချင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်နှင့် စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီးရှိ နားခိုရာဆေးခန်းများတွင် HIV/AIDS အသိပညာပေးအစီအစဉ်များကို ဒီဇင်ဘာလ (၁) ရက်နေ့တွင်ကျင်းပပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။
အသိပညာပေးအစီအစဉ်များအား သက်ဆိုင်ရာစီမံချက်မန်နေဂျာများနှင့် ကွင်းဆင်းဝန်ထမ်းများမှ ဦးဆောင်၍ ခုခံအားကျဆင်းမှုကူးစက်ရောဂါ (AIDS)နှင့်ပတ်သက်သော အသိပညာများတိုးပွားစေရန်ရည်ရွယ်၍ ကျင်းပပြုလုပ် ခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်ပါသည်။ အဆိုပါအခမ်းအနားကို မူးယစ်ဆေးအကြောသွင်းထိုးသွင်းသုံးစွဲသူများ၊ မူးယစ်ဆေးသုံးစွဲသူများ၊ လိင်လုပ်သားများနှင့် ရပ်ရွာလူထုများပါဝင် တက်ရောက်ခဲ့ကြပါသည်။
အဆိုပါ HIV/AIDS ရောဂါဆိုင်ရာကျန်းမာရေးအသိပညာပေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲများ၊ ဂိမ်းကစားခြင်းများ၊ အဖွဲ့လိုက် ပူးပေါင်းပါဝင်မှုများသည် ခုခံအားကျဆင်းမှုကူးစက်ရောဂါဝေဒနာရှင်များအား ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံမှုများလျော့ကျ စေပြီး ကျန်းမာရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုရယူနေသူများကြားတွင်လည်း ခုခံအားကျဆင်းမှုကူးစက်ရောဂါ (AIDS) ကာကွယ်,ကုသရေးနည်းလမ်းများကို ပိုမိုနားလည်သိရှိစေခဲ့ပါသည်။ ထို့ပြင် တက်ရောက်လာသူများအား အန္တရာယ်လျော့ပါးရေးပစ္စည်းများကိုမျှဝေပေးကာ အကျွေးအမွေးများဖြင့်ဧည့်ခံခဲ့ပြီး ဆုရရှိသူများကိုလည်း ဆုများ ပေးအပ်ချီးမြှင့်ခဲ့ပါသည်။
အဆိုပါအစီအစဉ်များမှတဆင့် တက်ရောက်လာကြသူများအား အန္တရာယ်လျော့ပါးရေးနည်းလမ်းများကို မျှဝေပေးခြင်းအားဖြင့် မူးယစ်ဆေးသုံးစွဲသူများနှင့် လိင်အလုပ်သမားများအကြား HIV ကူးစက်ပြန့်ပွားမှုကို လျှော့ချနိုင်တဲ့အပြင် ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံမှုများကိုလည်းလျှော့ချနိုင်ပါမည်။
On December 1st, World AIDS Day, AHRN and the Best Shelter Drop-In Center organized a series of awareness-raising activities on HIV/AIDS across multiple project sites in Sagaing Division, Shan State, and Kachin State.
Led by project managers and outreach workers, the events aimed to educate and engage key populations, including people who inject drugs (PWID), people who use drugs (PWUD), s*x workers (SW), and local community members.
The activities included interactive health education sessions on HIV and ART, group-based games, and awareness-focused activities designed to reduce stigma, encourage preventive measures, and foster understanding. Participants also received harm reduction materials and refreshments, with quiz winners taking home prizes.
Through these initiatives, AHRN and Best Shelter equip participants with knowledge about HIV/ART prevention, aiming to lower HIV transmission risks among people who use drugs and female s*x workers while addressing and reducing discrimination against individuals living with HIV/AIDS.
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AHRN-Myanmar was established in 2003 with the aim to support the people and programmes in Myanmar towards the reduction of drug use-related harms (especially HIV/AIDS, other blood borne infections and over-dose) among people using drugs, their families and loved ones and their communities. AHRN current legal registration base is in Antwerp, Belgium where it is registered as a Foundation. AHRN has close working relationships with international, regional, national and local government and non-government organisations working in similar or related areas.
AHRN is operating under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Health and its registration with the Home Affairs. AHRN is has been one of the principle agencies conducting seminars and workshops, and exposure visits for local and international NGOs and UNs counterparts, to study harm reduction initiatives in other countries in the region.
The Asian Harm Reduction Network (AHRN) has been implementing harm reduction services in Myanmar for over a decade. AHRN specializes in implementing services in border areas, mining towns and armed conflict zones (often a combination of more than one). Due to the challenging nature of these areas, regular health services are generally not available, and when they are, they are very limited. Exclusion then becomes coupled with no access. An example of one of these areas is Hpakant Township in Kachin State, a jade mining town with a history of regular and prolonged eruptions of armed conflict.
AHRN Drug Use Intervention Corridor
Drug use in Myanmar is closely related to the abundantly available heroine, subsistence day labor at poppy fields and movement of drug using migrant workers, following work opportunities in gold and jade mines. AHRN operates in those areas, which forms AHRN drug use intervention corridors, where there is a logic geographical and epidemiological rationale to be present.
AHRN Vision
Available and accessible quality healthcare for all People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) and People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Myanmar.
AHRN Mission
AHRN supports the right to a healthy life for all its service users by implementing comprehensive evidence based interventions through a process of collaborative working with all partners and advocacy with local communities.
AHRN: Key Objectives
Objective 1: To deliver evidence based quality interventions through a qualified and experienced workforce, who participate in a regular on-going cycle of training and professional development.
Objective 2: To advocate with key decision makers, service users and local communities for the rights of individuals, by creating an enabling environment through partnership, creativity, transparency and accountability.
Objective 3: To promote equity in access to healthcare for all our service users.
