Following a half century of military rule, care for HIV/AIDS patients in Burma lags behind other countries. Half of the estimated 240,000 people living with the disease in Burma are going without treatment and 18,000 are dying from it every year. It will take years to prop up a broken health system hobbled by decades of neglect.
The Waiting House: Caring for Burma’s HIV Patients
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Reflected in a window, a six-year-old girl Myat Noe Thu, stands alone while her HIV-infected parents and younger sister, rest in a hut at an HIV/AIDS center on the outskirts of Rangoon, Burma. Myat is not infected with HIV.