The British Health Organization Without Borders first started its work in eight provinces in East China at 1993, and started its business in Yunnan at 1996.
Start the primary health care and infectious disease control project 10. From 2003 to 2006, another maternal and child health care project was carried out in Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia. In May 2003, I visited all parts of Zhangjiakou and cooperated with Zhangjiakou: training medical staff; Help treat SARS patients; Provide some medical material assistance to the local area. Local front-line medical staff have been trained, and some materials will be delivered one after another, with a total value of about 500,000 yuan. In addition, the organization also conducted in-depth exchanges with local health departments on sewage treatment in designated hospitals. The work organized in China mainly focuses on the prevention and control of malaria and AIDS. The organization cooperated with the fifth round of malaria project of China Global Fund, and was responsible for health education on malaria prevention and control in four border counties of Yunnan Province/KLOC-0. The HIV infection rate of adults in the Greater Mekong River Basin is between 1.5-2%, and this institution is ahead in the border areas between China and Myanmar.
Some regions (Dehong in Yunnan, China and Kachin State in Myanmar) have launched cross-border harm reduction projects to deal with the AIDS problem in this region. We hope to control AIDS in this region through bilateral cooperation, and at the same time accumulate experience from it and extend it to the whole Mekong River basin. In 2006, at the invitation of the Ministry of Health of China, as the only non-governmental organization, it participated in the design and implementation of malaria joint prevention and control projects in some areas of China-Myanmar border, mainly providing services for cross-border floating population. The project area includes Cangyuan and Menglian border counties in Yunnan, China, and the second special zone (Wa State) in Shan State, Myanmar. The project covers 20,000 floating population and 430,000 local ethnic minorities. The project has played an important role in establishing bilateral information exchange mechanism for disease control, building local malaria control capacity and improving the accessibility of local malaria control services.
In September 2007, they started a new cross-border cooperation project with the sixth round of malaria project of China Global Fund. This project covers 3 million people in Yunnan, China and 500,000 ethnic minorities in four special zones in Myanmar bordering China. Malaria cases in Yunnan account for 33% of China, while 70% of cases in Yunnan occur in the border areas between China and Myanmar. The activities of the project include providing outreach services for migrant workers and local people, conducting face-to-face health education for China workers who go to work in Myanmar, and distributing antimalarial drugs, mosquito nets and health education materials.