Contributing to national strategies
The 3MDG Fund works closely with Myanmar’s national disease control programmes to support national strategies to combat HIV and AIDS, TB and malaria, complementing investment from the Government, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and other partners. This involves a focus on:
- harm reduction;
- expanding HIV prevention among people who inject drugs;
- addressing policy and legal barriers for effective HIV prevention;
- management of multi-drug resistant TB and acceleration of TB active case finding;
- improving service provision in prisons;
- promoting integrated HIV, TB and MNCH services;
- advancing malaria prevention and improving case management to contain drug resistance, in support of the Myanmar Artemisinin Resistance Containment Framework.
Integrating responses to diseases
3MDG expects partners to provide integrated health care packages to beneficiaries instead of running vertical disease control programmes. Integrated health care services for HIV, TB and malaria are sensible when the priority populations include underserved, difficult-to-reach and remote communities in resource-limited settings. This means that several 3MDG partners provide integrated services including TB plus malaria or TB plus malaria plus HIV harm reduction.
Delivering services to poor and underserved communities
3MDG funds partners that provide HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria related services to mostly disadvantaged people, often in hard-to-reach, rural and urban slum areas across Myanmar. Some also provide harm reduction services for people who inject drugs - a population with diverse ethnic, religious and social backgrounds in project areas characterized by conflict and high physical vulnerability, including gold prospecting and jade mining sites.
Mobile team operations carry out active case finding and are reaching poor, underserved and marginalized communities living in slums and remote areas, industrial zones, mining areas, prisons and migrant construction sites.
Working in conflict-affected areas
3MDG implementing partners also engage with local non-state actors and community-based organizations to provide malaria, TB and harm reduction services in the non-state and mountainous areas in Kokang Self-Administered Region, Kayin, Kachin and Kayah areas. They reach internally displaced persons in conflict-affected ceasefire zones, vulnerable mobile populations, and forest dwellers with little or no access to health facilities.
