In Kachin State, Myanmar, the slow collapse of road infrastructure has quietly severed a lifeline for 28,000 people living with HIV, reducing what were once stable three-month supplies of antiretroviral therapy to desperate fragments of days. Where roads once carried medicine, silence now travels instead, and a single fragile air route stands between tens of thousands of patients and the viral rebound their treatment was built to prevent. This is not merely a logistics failure — it is a reminder that the infrastructure of survival is always more precarious than it appears, and that when it bre
28,000 HIV patients in Myanmar's Kachin State face critical medicine shortages
28,000 HIV patients face interrupted antiretroviral therapy, risking treatment failure, disease progression, and potential transmission; patients in remote areas unable to access medication.