People in Myanmar have very limited access to medical aid. The poor regions in particular have few to no health services and we want to solve this issue. We are trying to tackle the problems by setting up a network of clinics in which basic medical aid is provided. In order to be cost efficient, the aim is to work on a large scale. Besides medical treatment, our organization also focuses on preventative education. However, in cases of malaria and tuberculosis prevention is not needed due to the fact that treatment helps reducing the spread of the virus. Therefore, mostly HIV prevention is provided. This takes form in activities like condom and needle distribution and the treatment of sexual transmittable diseases. To further prevent the spread of HIV, we treat pregnant HIV + women in order to keep the disease away from their unborn babies. For people with insufficient funds, all medical services will be free. For others, some medical services will be charged. This will clear money for additional patients and encourage personal responsibility.

Aside from medical care in the clinics, MAM supports a network of 450 Community Health Workers (CHW) to provide health care in the most remote villages in North and East Myanmar (Kachin, Kayin, Kayah, Tanintharyi and Mon states). These villages never received any health care services so far and this is the first time that they have a trained health care worker with reliable tests and treatment in their villages. The project started in 2011 originally with the aim to contain artemisinin-resistant malaria. Artemisinin is the last effective drug to treat malaria. Unfortunately, resistance is spreading and common in East Myanmar. This is a major health threat in the world. Intense malaria activities can halt the spread. In 2013 CHW working for MAM tested 73,076 patients for malaria and 7,160 patients tested positive and were treated afterwards. In addition a basic health care package was added to the malaria activities of the community health workers. Up to December 2013 a total of 215 CHW were trained for the diagnosis of the most common diseases (including acute respiratory tract infections, diarrhoea, skin diseases), malnutrition and family planning and they performed 34,666 basic health care consultations. In 2014 we are aiming for an increase of CHW from 450 to 900 and train all CHW to be able to manage the basic health care package. Early diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, a common and deadly disease, will be added to the package.