For more than two decades, MPG has championed the rights, dignity and meaningful participation of PLHIV across Myanmar. As the country’s largest national network of people living with HIV, MPG believes that ending AIDS requires more than expanding access to health services. It also requires protecting human rights, reducing stigma and discrimination, strengthening community leadership, and creating policies and laws that enable every person to access quality healthcare without fear or exclusion.
Working alongside communities, the National AIDS Programme (NAP), community-led organizations, civil society, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and development partners, MPG has contributed to strengthening Myanmar’s HIV response through community systems strengthening, evidence generation, policy dialogue and human rights advocacy. These efforts support the goals of Myanmar’s National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS and align with global commitments to end inequalities and achieve sustainable HIV outcomes.
Promoting Human Rights and Legal Reform
Legal and policy environments have a profound influence on people’s ability to access HIV services. Stigma, discrimination, breaches of confidentiality, gender inequality and legal barriers continue to prevent many people living with HIV and key populations from fully benefiting from prevention, treatment and care.
MPG works to promote a rights-based approach to HIV by supporting dialogue, advocacy and collaboration among communities, policymakers, legal experts and health authorities. Through consultations, policy engagement and community-generated evidence, MPG contributes to efforts that strengthen legal protections, improve access to justice and promote non-discrimination.
The organization is committed to supporting future HIV law and policy reform processes that strengthen confidentiality, protect human rights, promote equitable access to healthcare and ensure that the voices of PLHIV remain central to national decision-making.
Strengthening Community Feedback Mechanisms
Communities are best placed to identify barriers affecting the quality and accessibility of HIV services.
MPG has played a leading role in strengthening Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) in Myanmar in collaboration with community partners, the National AIDS Programme and UNAIDS. CFM provides a structured platform through which people living with HIV and key populations can safely report challenges related to service delivery, stigma and discrimination, confidentiality, treatment access and other issues affecting their health and wellbeing.
Beyond resolving individual concerns, CFM promotes dialogue between communities, health providers and programme managers, helping to improve service quality, strengthen accountability and build trust within the health system.
Looking ahead, MPG is committed to further strengthening CFM as a sustainable component of Myanmar’s HIV response, ensuring that community voices continue to inform programme improvement and policy development.
Advancing Community-Led Monitoring
Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) places communities at the centre of monitoring the quality, accessibility and responsiveness of HIV services.
MPG has supported the development and implementation of Community-Led Monitoring approaches that enable communities to systematically collect, analyse and use evidence to improve HIV programmes. Through CLM, PLHIV contribute directly to monitoring treatment access, service quality, retention in care, stigma and discrimination, and other factors that influence health outcomes.
This community-generated evidence complements routine health information systems by providing insights into the lived experiences of service users and identifying barriers that may otherwise remain invisible.
MPG believes that CLM is not only an accountability tool but also a mechanism for strengthening partnerships between communities, healthcare providers and policymakers to improve HIV services for everyone.
Building Evidence for Change
Evidence generated by communities plays a vital role in shaping effective HIV programmes and policies.
MPG has contributed to national assessments, operational research and community-led evidence generation to better understand the experiences of people living with HIV and key populations. This work has informed advocacy, programme improvement and strategic planning while promoting meaningful participation by affected communities.
As Myanmar’s HIV response continues to evolve, MPG is committed to supporting future community-led research and national evidence initiatives, including the next People Living with HIV Stigma Index, to better understand stigma, discrimination, human rights and structural barriers affecting access to HIV services.
Such evidence will help strengthen advocacy, improve programme quality and support informed decision-making by communities, government institutions and development partners.
Looking Ahead: 2026–2030
Between 2026 and 2030, MPG will continue working with communities, government institutions, civil society organizations, academic institutions and international partners to strengthen community systems and advance a more equitable HIV response.
Our priorities include:
- advancing human rights and HIV law reform;
- strengthening Community Feedback Mechanisms;
- expanding Community-Led Monitoring;
- generating high-quality community-led evidence;
- supporting implementation of the National Strategic Plan on HIV and AIDS;
- promoting meaningful involvement of people living with HIV; and
- building resilient, community-led systems that contribute to sustainable health outcomes.
By translating lived experience into evidence and evidence into action, MPG remains committed to ensuring that people living with HIV are not only beneficiaries of HIV programmes, but active leaders in shaping policies, strengthening health systems and advancing human rights across Myanmar.
Partner with MPG
MPG welcomes collaboration with government institutions, community-led organizations, civil society, academic and research institutions, United Nations agencies, philanthropic foundations and development partners who share our commitment to advancing human rights, community leadership and evidence-informed HIV responses.
Together, we can build a future where every person living with HIV is able to access quality healthcare, exercise their rights and contribute to a stronger, more equitable and more accountable health system.
