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Subject : The
Meeting on Development of Health Collaboration along Thailand-Myanmar Border
areas,18-19 March 2004, Lotus Pang Suan Kaew, Chiang Mai Provice
 General Objective
To promote and strengthen
health collaboration among organizations working along the Thailand-Myanmar
border area.
Specific Objectives
 To provide an opportunity for Provincial
Health Offices, NGOs and other stakeholders working in the Thailand/Myanmar
border area to come together to exchange information, discuss common issues
and identify potential solutions.
To provide an opportunity to hear updates and
reports on ongoing border health projects and activities. This includes a
two-day exhibition featuring activities along the border.
Background Information:
The Border Health Meeting has
been developed as a mechanism for sharing information on the border health
situation and activities along Thailand-Myanmar border area. It is also an
opportunity for discussing key issues with an eye to identifying solutions
agreeable to all parties.
The first Border Health
Meeting, focusing on malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, was held during
11-12 March 2002 in Mae Sot District, Tak Province.
The second meeting, focusing on more general health issues in the border
areas, was held on 27-28 March 2003 in Ranong Province.
The meetings were attended by provincial health officers from all ten
provinces along Thailand-Myanmar border, representatives from the central
administration of MOPH, NGOs, UN organizations and donors.
In response to conclusions
reached at the first meeting, Provincial Health Coordination Meetings in the
ten border provinces have been established as a forum for regularly sharing
information and discussing health problems among organizations at the
provincial level. As a result of the second meeting, a standardized
multi-lingual medical records book is now being developed for use in the
border area, focused group meetings are being held in the ten Thai-Myanmar
border provinces to identify needs for capacity building of the provincial
health coordination meeting, and a data technical officer in the Ministry of
Public Health Epidemiology has been assigned to data collection on migrants.
To provide a forum for sharing
health-related information and discussing common border health issues and
seeking appropriate solutions for solving health problems along
Thailand-Myanmar border areas, the third Border
Health Meeting is organizing
and scheduled for March 2004. The meeting will include a two-day exhibition
where organizations can share information about their activities.
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