A nurse takes care of an AIDS patient at the Glory Hut Foundation in Chonburi province
A nurse takes care of an AIDS patient at the Glory Hut Foundation in Chonburi province, east of Bangkok January 20, 2015. In mid-December, villagers in Lang Nern, a few kilometres outside the seaside resort of Pattaya, voted to evict the Glory Hut Foundation, a small HIV/AIDS hospice. Villagers say that Glory Hut did not consult them before setting up the centre, the presence of people living with HIV/AIDs hurts their businesses and they fear catching opportunistic diseases. There is no legal backing for the eviction vote, but the hospice may move after being socially ostracised. In a country that has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV/AIDS, incidents such as this underline the stigma and discrimination that people still face. Picture taken January 20. To match story THAILAND-HIV/DISCRIMINATION REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND - Tags: HEALTH)