Photos: HIV Patients in Myanmar Struggle

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Thant Myint Win, a 34-year-old HIV patient, walks on a street in front of a clinic in South Dagon, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Win contracted the virus through unprotected sex. Of the estimated 190,000 people who lived with the virus last year, only around a third were getting treatment, and over 15,000 died from the disease, according to UNAIDS. AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe

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A woman infected with HIV stares up at the hand of a volunteer as he adjusts her intravenous drip at a crowded clinic in South Dagon, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. This clinic admits around 10 new HIV/AIDS patients every month, many of them from the countrys delta region in the south. AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe

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HIV patients and their relatives find sanctuary at a clinic in South Dagon, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar, which only recently emerged from a half-century of dictatorship and self-imposed isolation, has one of the world's worst health care systems, with tens of thousands dying each year from malaria, tuberculosis, dysentery, diarrhea. AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe

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Two young men infected with HIV douse themselves with water at a clinic in South Dagon, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Patients, traveling from all corners of the country, reside at the center for three months so they can receive Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) regularly. AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe

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A woman infected with HIV receives intravenous infusion at a clinic set up by the opposition National League for Democracy party in South Dagon, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Of the estimated 190,000 people who lived with the virus last year, only around a third were getting treatment, and over 15,000 died from the disease, according to UNAIDS. AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe

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Ko Aye Naing, 43, looks after his 3-month-old nephew at a clinic for HIV patients in South Dagon, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. The family has been decimated by the disease: The boys father, a rickshaw driver from a small town in Myanmars southern delta, died several months ago. His mother and 5-year-old brother also have also tested HIV positive. AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe

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