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  • heroinAuthorities feed on heroin epidemic in Hpakant
    Photos and text by Kachin News Group
    The jade mines of Hpakant in Burma’s northern Kachin State have long been notorious for high rates of drug addiction and HIV infection. What is less known, thanks to the military regime’s strict control of information from this remote area, is the collusion by the authorities in the narcotics trade.
  • Myanmar: The HIV/AIDS crisis
    MYANMAR Briefing
    Bangkok/Brussels, 2 April 2002
  • Myanmar: Update on HIV/AIDS Policy
    ASIA Briefing
    Yangon/Brussels, 16 December 2004
  • Poisoned Hills
    Opium culti vati on surges under government control in Burma
    by the Palaung Women’s Organization
    January 2010

  • War on drugs
    Southeast Asian Affairs 2009
    Paul Sarno

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