Progress Seen in Building a Healthcare System in Rural Myanmar

Doctors have long struggled to reach patients in rural Myanmar, where ethnic insurgencies and political repression have made building a reliable healthcare system virtually impossible. But community health teams in eastern states, near the Thai border, say they are seeing evidence of improvement, in part because of political reforms and cease-fire agreements. Seven ethnic and community organizations recently conducted a survey to assess the overall health and availability of health care...

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