U Sam Hla, a terminally ill AIDS patient rests in his hut at the HIV/AIDS hospice founded by a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the suburbs of Yangon May 26, 2012. Their plight demonstrates the painful limits of democracy in Myanmar. While the government is pursuing reforms that promise to overhaul its health ministry and other institutions, the process is too slow to bring change to its most destitute. There are few better examples than AIDS sufferers, who due to a combination of poor education, social stigma and bureaucratic mismanagement are isolated in clinics, cut off from society. Picture taken May 26, 2012. To match Feature MYANMAR-HIV/ REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (MYANMAR - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH)

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A woman, with HIV, receives treatment at a HIV/AIDS hospice, founded by a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, in the suburbs of Yangon December 1, 2013. World AIDS day is observed on December 1, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (MYANMAR - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH) 

Mye Nyo (R), 39, is comforted by Thi Darwin, 23, at a Catholic-run hospice for AIDS patients in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State July 7, 2013. Both residents of the hospice were infected by their husbands, heroin addicts who died of AIDS. The wide availability of heroin in northern Myanmar is fueling the HIV epidemic, experts say. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (MYANMAR - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION DRUGS HEALTH) 

Academy award winner and HIV/AIDS campaigner U.S. actress Charlize Theron gets photographed for the Global Fund's Big Push campaign by the Global Economic Forum in Davos January 22, 2013. The Big Push is a campaign to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) is held from January 23 to 27, 2013 in Davos. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener (SWITZERLAND - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT) 

A nurse tests a blood sample during a free HIV test at a blood tests party, part of a campaign to prevent HIV infection among male same-sex couples, in Bangkok September 20, 2014. Bare-chested male models strutted through the glitzy ballroom in Bangkok to the beat of house music while dozens of young gay men waited anxiously, working up the nerve to have a blood test. The mostly female health team taking samples seemed incongruous next to the shirtless models circling the party, but the health workers' presence at the TestBKK event, Thailand's first mass HIV testing for gays, was sending a powerful message. Picture taken September 20, 2014. To match TRF Feature FOUNDATION-THAILAND/HIV REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha (THAILAND - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

A red ribbon is put on the sleeves of a man by his friend to show support for people living with HIV during a program to raise awareness about AIDS on World AIDS Day in Kathmandu December 1, 2013. World AIDS Day is observed annually on December 1. According to the Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population, National Center for AIDS and STD Control, the estimated number of people living with HIV is around 48,600 in Nepal. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

An HIV infected patient holds the hand of another HIV infected patient in front of the HIV/AIDS hospice, founded by a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD), party in the suburbs of Yangon on World AIDS Day December 1, 2012. REUTERS/Minzayar (MYANMAR - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Timothy Brown, also known as "The Berlin Patient", listens as he is introduced to speak at a news conference held by the World AIDS Institute in Washington July 24, 2012. Brown is thought to be the first patient ever to be cured of HIV infection. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH) 

Ma Jam, a 42 year-old AIDS patient hold hands with 2 year-old HIV positive Kanama at the HIV/AIDS hospice founded by a member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the suburbs of Yangon May 26, 2012. Their plight demonstrates the painful limits of democracy in Myanmar. While the government is pursuing reforms that promise to overhaul its health ministry and other institutions, the process is too slow to bring change to its most destitute. There are few better examples than AIDS sufferers, who due to a combination of poor education, social stigma and bureaucratic mismanagement are isolated in clinics, cut off from society. Picture taken May 26, 2012. To match Feature MYANMAR-HIV/ REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (MYANMAR - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH)

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A member of the MSM (Men who have Sex with Men) Club, wears a red ribbon while he performs at a HIV/Aids awareness campaign in Hanoi November 27, 2011. More than one hundred groups from the Vietnam Civil Society Partnership Platform on AIDS organized awareness campaigns throughout the country on Sunday to commemorate the deaths of HIV/AIDS victims and mark the upcoming HIV/AIDS day on December 1. In the year of 2010, an estimated 230,000 people in Vietnam were HIV-positive, out of whom 50,000 died, according to the latest government data. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Nurse Maria Vatista is seen inside a mobile HIV testing van in Omonia square in Athens October 31, 2011. The latest available United Nations figures, from 2009, show that 11,000 people, or 0.1 percent of the Greek population, had HIV/AIDS, a third the rate in the United States. But that may be changing. In the first five months of 2010, Greece had 255 new HIV cases. Over the same period this year, there were 384 new cases -- an increase of more than 50 percent. The Hellenic Center predicts the rate of increase will rise to 60 percent by the end of 2011. By comparison in the United States, cases are increasing by around 7 percent annually. Picture taken October 31, 2011. To match Insight GREECE/HIV REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (GREECE - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY POLITICS) 

People walk inside a giant condom on World AIDS Day in central Budapest December 1, 2010. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo (HUNGARY - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE 

AIDS action groups activists demonstrate in front the National Assembly in Paris September 20, 2010 to protest against the possible fall of the funds given to fight AIDS. The banner reads "Stop AIDS". REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS HEALTH SOCIETY) 

A man living with HIV covers his face to avoid being identified due to fear of discrimination at a Saudi Charity Association for AIDS Patients in Jeddah July 19, 2010. About 350 AIDS patients visit the charity monthly, an official at the charity said. REUTERS/Susan Baaghil (SAUDI ARABIA - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS) 

Ncedeka Mbunye, 14, poses for a portrait while wearing a T-shirt indicating that she is HIV-positive in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township February 17, 2010. Some 5.5 million people live with HIV/AIDS in South Africa -- more than in any other country -- while 33 million people live with the disease worldwide. Brightly coloured T-shirts with the HIV-positive logo are distributed by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and are intended to reduce the stigma attached to the disease. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

Sex workers attend a demonstration for the use of a female condom during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign organised by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri February 15, 2010. More than two hundred sex workers attended the awareness campaign on Monday, a NGO official said. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

About 2880 candles are seen lit during a World AIDS Day event in Jakarta December 1, 2009. Fifty million women in Asia are at risk of being infected with HIV because of the risky sexual behaviour of their husbands or boyfriends, a report released by UNAIDS said in August. REUTERS/Dadang Tri (INDONESIA HEALTH ANNIVERSARY) 

A man stands among 5000 crosses marking World Aids Day at Museum Square in Amsterdam December 1, 2009. As World Aids Day is marked on Tuesday, globally some 33.4 million people were living with HIV and there were some 2 million AIDS-related deaths in 2008 according to UNAIDS. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen (NE RLANDS HEALTH SOCIETY RELIGION IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

An Indian health official stores blood samples from sex workers and their clients in a HIV test laboratory in Sonagachi, the red-light district of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata April 24, 2008. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw (INDIA) 

Wendy Aracely Hernandez, who has AIDS, rests on her bed in San Jose hospice in San Pedro Sula on her birthday November 29, 2007. Wendy was infected with HIV when she was raped four years ago in her home town of Santa Barbara. She also has a three year old son who is HIV positive. December 1 is World AIDS Day. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS) 

Simon Nkutwa, an AIDS patient, is given a bath by a health care giver in his shack at Orangefarm outside Johanneburg June 5, 2007. AIDS researchers from around the world gathered in Durban, South Africa, for the 3rd South African Aids Conference 2007, amid tentative signs the nation is finally embracing mainstream approaches to fighting the epidemic.
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Thawon, 60, grimaces in pain while resting in his bed at a hospice for HIV-AIDS patients at the Phrabat Nampu Temple in Thailand's Lopburi Province February 17, 2007. Last month, the Thai Health Ministry issued compulsory licenses for the heart disease drug Plavix, made by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis and Abbott Laboratories' Kaletra to treat HIV/AIDS after a similar move on another AIDS drug last year. The licenses, which Thai health officials said would save the country up to 800 million baht ($24 million) a year, drew praise from AIDS activists but flak from Washington and the drug industry, which are urging the ministry to rescind them. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (THAILAND) 

A HIV-positive woman holds AIDS awareness leaflets during an AIDS awareness drive inside brothels in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri November 30, 2006. India has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS at 5.7 million, according to UNAIDS, and 85 percent of infections are transmitted through sex. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA) 

An AIDS awareness chart is displayed at the Aids Center of Queens County needle exchange outreach center in New York November 28, 2006. Participants bring used syringes to the program and trade them for clean ones. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES)