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MAFP and Myanmar Family Doctors Celebrate World Family Doctor Day
MAFP organized a webinar in the afternoon of the World Family Doctor Day to celebrate this international event with Myanmar family doctors.

MAFP Opens Academic Family Medicine Center
The MAFP is moving forward under the family medicine development program by opening an academic family medicine clinic in Yangon.

Brief Report on WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference Bali
The first face-to-face WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference was held in Bali from December 5 to 7, 2022 since COVID-19 pandemic started. Dr Mya Win Hnit, a faculty of Myanmar Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) attended the WONCA APR Bali Conference as the only delegate from Myanmar.

MAFP Conducts a CME Webinar on COVID-19
The Myanmar Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP), in cooperation with the General Practitioners’ Society, and with the generous support of the Shin Kong Life Foundation and Shin Kong Hospital, were pleased to present a Continuing Medical Education webinar for primary care doctors to discuss the evolving landscape of COVID-19 management.

World Family Doctor Day 2022 Observed in Myanmar
As many family doctor organizations around the world were celebrating the World Family Doctor Day (WFDD)2022 on May 19, MAFP organized a webinar for Myanmar family doctors to participate in this auspicious event same day.

MAFP Publishes Patient Information Flyers
The first batch of patient information flyers were published by the Patient Empowerment Program of MAFP. These flyers carry the comprehensive information on Coronary Artery Disease, DASH Diet, Gout and Low-Purine Diet, and G6PD Deficiency.

MAFP Organized a Covid Webinar for GPs
As Myanmar is facing a substantial growth of COVID-19 cases, the general practitioners are again bracing themselves to put down the impact of the pandemic at the grass root level.

Working with z-waka for Better Family Practice Management- December 2021
The MAFP is working with other societies or institutions which have objectives similar to or compatible with its own. Z-waka is an IT company which is trying to enable clinics in low resource settings to provide affordable quality healthcare through practice management tools including Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

The Patient Empowerment Program- August 2021
The objective of this project is to hasten the readiness of the patients for more participatory clinical management, and to happen effective shared-decision making processes between doctors and patients.

Oxygen Concentrators Donated to MAFP Teaching Clinics
Shin Kong Life Foundation, Taiwan, donated 10-Liter Oxygen concentrators to MAFP to be used in treating COVID-19 patients.