We equip community based BACKPACK MEDICS who travel among their people to administer primary healthcare services to counter the effects of malnutrition, disease and violence.

Despite the election of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy to hold the majority of seats in Burma’s parliament, the Burma army continued its unrestrained assault on Burma’s ethnic minorities - the Rohingya, Kachin, Shan, Pa’laung, Mon and Karen peoples.

Isolated, without government health care support, the ethnic minorities in Burma endured illnesses and diseases that are accentuated by malnutrition.

Since 1999, Burma Humanitarian Mission has partnered with the Backpack Health Worker Teams (BPHWT) to recruit, train and outfit teams of backpack medics and health workers.

Run for Burma 2018

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