AP Photos: HIV patients in Myanmar struggle

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AP Photos: HIV patients in Myanmar struggle

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-hiv-patients-myanmar-struggle-053057137.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8I70hoPEruy_3yJKr3H6uQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/e03413a3ed3acd225e0f6a706700fd87.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this Aug 27, 2014 photo, 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 country’s delta region in the south. Though international aid has been flowing into the country since 2011, when military rulers handed over power to a nominally civilian government, the country remains one of the hardest places to get care for HIV. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)" align="left" title="In this Aug 27, 2014 photo, 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 country’s delta region in the south. Though international aid has been flowing into the country since 2011, when military rulers handed over power to a nominally civilian government, the country remains one of the hardest places to get care for HIV. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)" border="0" /></a>YANGON, Myanmar (AP) â€" 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 because treatment is lacking for many diseases, including AIDS.</p><br clear="all"/>

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