AIDS is still a major problem. In 2001, there were 40 million men, women and children around the world living with HIV/AIDS. More than 25 million have died from an AIDS-related illness.More people are living with HIV/AIDS in Burma than ever before. Dr Chris Beyrer, American expert on AIDS in Southeast Asia, says military government of Myanmar is falsifying statistics to hide evidence that disease has reached epidemic levels there; his study concludes that 3.46 percent of adults are infected with virus that causes disease. Therefore, we, JHB(Justice for Human Rights in Burma ) members dedicate to eradicating HIV/AIDS by rasing awarness and funds to combat this pandemic in Burma. JHB is currently organizing a local music band for raising funds to fight the continuing struggle against HIV/AIDS in Burma. Our campaign " AIDS TRUST OF BURMA" will be launched in many US cities.

After the military regime has failed to act to stem the epidemic, JHB believes, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her leadership can make a critical difference to the lives of people living and affected by HIV/AIDS. Your support will help Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 's team to fight against HIV/AIDS and change the Burma of those affected through:

EDUCATION -
YOU will allow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her team to develop preventative programs so that they can reduce infection rates and decrease ignorance around HIV/AIDS related issues.
CARE -
YOU will help Daw Aung San Su Kyi and her team to provide adequate medications and services to those living with HIV/AIDS.
SUPPORT -
YOU will empower Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her team to relieve poverty, discrimination and other issues confronting those living with HIV/AIDS.
RESEARCH -
YOU will help in developing new treatments for those living with HIV/AIDS along with work on a HIV vaccine and cure for AIDS.

We also call on the international community to support and allow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership to fight against HIV/AIDS.

The current situation on health and education:
Ref: http://www.soros.org/burma/health_education.html

According to United Nations statistics, the SLORC spends 222% more on military spending than it does on health and education combined. Only three countries in the world—Iraq, Syria, and Oman—have a worse ratio. These UN figures might in fact underestimate SLORC military spending; the regime is still expanding an army whose main role is to suppress domestic demands for democracy. Since 1991, a handful of international non-governmental organizations have begun work in Burma. However, the regime’s controls over health assistance programs are so strict that many others refuse to operate in Burma. This is effectively crippling crucially-needed AIDS awareness programs, which are already in full swing in neighboring Thailand, which also faces an HIV crisis.

The AIDS epidemic is most intense in Burma’s northeast, which suffers the combined effects of HIV spread both by intravenous heroin use and sexual transmission. In both areas, the military regime has failed to act to stem the epidemic. The junta’s cease-fire agreements with some ethnic groups allows production and trading of heroin. Burma’s border areas are awash with cheap supplies of the drug, which is also plentiful in the country’s largest cities, Rangoon and Mandalay. Heroin is far cheaper than syringes, and addicts routinely share needles.

The epidemic is also spreading through sexual contact. Many young women from Burma’s diverse hill peoples have been forced or lured into prostitution in Thailand. As many as 40,000 may be in the trade at any given time. Tragically, a large percentage become HIV-positive within a few years. Here, too, the Burmese military has at best taken no action to ameliorate the trafficking of women into prostitution, and local commanders are accused of abetting the trade.

These and other health problems are exacerbated by the military junta’s brutality and repression. Torture, other physical mistreatment, and the casualties and other consequences of long years of warfare with armed ethnic opposition groups are obvious problems. Less apparent is the lack of accountability and free expression that prevents people from obtaining information or demanding that their government meet their needs.

There is no free press in Burma, and the few independent publications that comment on social issues are heavily censored. Criticism of the regime or its polices is not tolerated. In this atmosphere, Burma’s peoples are neither informed nor educated regarding health matters and have no say in how these problems are addressed.(ref: http://www.soros.org/burma/health_education.html)