28,000 HIV patients in Myanmar's Kachin State face critical medicine shortages

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