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88. Comments from Attapon Cheepsattayakorn, director, 10th Zonal TB and Chest Disease Center, Chiang
Mai, December 8, 2005.
89. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), “Running out of breath? TB care in the 21st century,” Geneva, 2004.
90. Written comments on draft of this report by Jay Varma, section chief for TB Prevention and Control
of the Thailand–U.S. Collaboration (TUC) and internist and epidemiologist, U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2005.
91. Interview with groups of health personnel at Chiang Mai and Tak Provincial Medical Offices, February
2005, and the Local Advisory Board, Bangkok, December, 29, 2004.
92. Interview with Sirinapha Jittimanee, public health officer, TB Cluster, Bureau of AIDS, TB and STIs,
December 7, 2005.
93. Interview with Sirinapha Jittimanee, public health officer, TB Cluster, Bureau of AIDS, TB and STIs,
December 7, 2005.
94. Interview with TB Cluster head, Bangkok, February 2005.
95. Comment by Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Public Health
Watch roundtable meeting, Chiang Mai, December 9, 2006.
96. Comments by Karyn Kaplan Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG), Public Health Watch
roundtable meeting, Bangkok, December 6, 2005; Rev. Sanan Wutti, The Church of Christ in Thailand,
Public Health Watch roundtable meeting, Chiang Mai, December 9, 2006.
97. M. Macan-Markar, “Millennium Goals: Burma must tackle TB and HIV,” Inter Press Service, Bangkok,
September 5, 2005, available at www.aegis.com/news/ips/2005/IP050901.html (accessed on April 27,
2006).
98. Caouette and Pack, 2002, Pushing Past the Definitions: Migration from Burma to Thailand (Refugees
International and Open Society Institute, December 2002) available at www.refugeesinternational.
org/files/3074_file_burma.pdf (accessed on April 27, 2006).
99. Comment by Sumalee Amarinsangpen, Office of Disease Prevention and Control Region 10, Public
Health Watch roundtable meeting, Chiang Mai, December 9, 2005.
100. P. Wandee , et al., “Dual TB/HIV epidemic in the northern Thailand and Myanmar border: The vital
need for bridging cross-country cooperation.” Paper presented at the International AIDS Conference,
Bangkok, 2004.
101. P. Wandee, et al., “Dual TB/HIV epidemic in the northern Thailand and Myanmar border: The vital
need for bridging cross-country cooperation.” Paper pesented at the International AIDS Conference,
Bangkok, 2004.
102. J. Suksont, “Report on the Thai/Myanmar Border TB Situation,” WHO Thailand, Border Health, 2005.
103. Interviews with country director and programme officer, Médecins Sans Frontières, and director of Mae
Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Tak province, February, 2005.
104. S. Nateniyom, et al., “Implementation of the DOTS strategy in prisons at provincial level, Thailand,”
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2004, 8(7): 848–854.
105. S. Nateniyom, et al., “Implementation of the DOTS strategy in prisons at provincial level, Thailand,”
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2004, 8(7): 848–854.
106. Model development for early tuberculosis diagnosis and management, prison-public referral system and
drug resistance monitoring in urban prison, Thailand. A final summary report presented at Grand Miracle
Hotel, Bangkok, January 11, 2005.
107. The treatment success rate of 68.7 percent involved 1,158 registered patients. See S. Nateniyom et al,
pp. 848–854.
108. Interview with Sirinapha Jittimanee, Bureau of AIDS, TB, and STIs, December 7, 2005.
109. Comment by Sumalee Amarinsangpen, Office of Disease Prevention and Control Region 10, at Public
Health Watch roundtable meeting, Chiang Mai, December 9, 2005.
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