Photo gallery HIV|AIDS stalks Burma
Warning: Some graphic content
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In this Sept. 4 photo, workers from a free funeral service and Kyaw Naing Aung's relatives carry the coffin of the HIV victim, who died a day earlier at the age of 29, outside the morgue of a special hospital for HIV/AIDS patients in Yangon, Myanmar.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
A mourner, seen through a net covering the deceased, grieves for Kyaw Naing Aung.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Aug. 28 photo, an HIV-infected mother adjusts the blanket for her 7-day-old newborn baby under a mosquito net at an HIV/AIDS hospice on the outskirts of Yangon. The infant will have to wait for six months to be tested for HIV/AIDS infection.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Sept. 1 photo, an HIV patient holds pills for his stomachache and diarrhea at an HIV/AIDS center on the outskirts of Yangon.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Sept. 1 photo, an HIV patient who is also infected with tuberculosis rests on a bed near his pills at the HIV/AIDS center on the outskirts of Yangon.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Sept. 1 photo, an HIV-infected woman holds a set of intravenous bag with a tube and needle that contains another HIV patient's blood on her way to dispose of them at the center.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Sept. 1 photo, an HIV-infected woman, center left, gets her medicine through intravenous drips after fainting while another HIV patient is also treated in a hut shared with other HIV-infected patients at the HIV/AIDS center.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Aug. 29 photo, an HIV-infected patient, front, brushes his teeth while an HIV-infected mother gives her baby a bath and another patient, back, prepares rice for dinner at the HIV/AIDS center.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Aug. 27 photo, an HIV-infected patient scoops water over her head to cool down on a hot summer day at the HIV/AIDS center.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Aug. 29 photo, reflected in a window, 6-year-old girl Myat Noe Thu stands at a courtyard alone while her HIV-infected parents and younger sister, unseen in the photo, rest in a hut at the HIV/AIDS center.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Sept. 4 photo, workers from a free funeral service move the body of HIV victim Kyaw Naing Aung, who died a day earlier at the age of 29, in a morgue of the special hospital for HIV/AIDS patients in Yangon.
Alexander F. Yuan | Associated Press
In this Sept. 4 photo, white chrysanthemum flowers cover the body of Kyaw Naing Aung during his funeral.