Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand border every week children receive vaccinations, especially for hepatitis b for infants as part of the health care program.
The clinic, which provides care to more than 110,000 refugees Burma each year, facing a growing challenge to help the patient of HIV and tuberculosis after stopping antiretroviral AIDS program sponsored by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres-MSF).
Doctors Without Borders shut down the program on the border before announcing ARVS in October this year a complete withdrawal from the health-care activities in Thailand, after 35 years. The group says it went after it failed to get permission from the Thailand authorities to provide health care for undocumented migrants and “vulnerable populations” in Thailand.
20-year-old Mao Tao Clinic says, in the latest annual report, facing increasing patient ARV difficulty in obtaining Medicine directly from Thai Mae Sot hospital, because ARVS program is full.