Cambridge Global Health Café – Myanmar

Socio-economic and political conditions in Myanmar have deteriorated significantly since the military coup in February 2021. A series of health reforms implemented in the previous 8 years were halted and access and improvements to healthcare services are now being reversed. The Myanmar military continues to intimidate healthcare workers, including arrests and killings. In 2021-2022 Myanmar has become one of the most dangerous places on the Earth to be a health worker. Despite many challenges international and local non-governmental health organisations, ethnic health organisations and charity clinics continue to run and support healthcare services.

This Global Health Café discussed the latest developments in Myanmar and focus on how international, national and local civil society organisations are delivering health services to people in need during this period of crisis.