Essays: Hope for the Hopeless: A Story of AIDS in Thailand: HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS
HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS
Mike Bassano, a volunteer at Wat Prabat Nampu AIDS hospice, helps Sommchai out of the truck at the Lopburi Hospital on Friday, March 10, 2006. The AIDS hospice does not have an ambulance, but instead uses an old pickup truck to transport patients to the emergency room when their conditions worsen. In addition to having AIDS, Sommchai has a bad case of tuberculosis and hasn't been able to keep any food or water down for the past three days. Despite the grim circumstances many patients face, Bassano has hope for the future and looks at places like Wat Prabat Nampu as places of life instead of places of death.
Mike Bassano, a volunteer at Wat Prabat Nampu AIDS hospice, helps Sommchai out of the truck at the Lopburi Hospital on Friday, March 10, 2006. The AIDS hospice does not have an ambulance, but instead uses an old pickup truck to transport patients to the emergency room when their conditions worsen. In addition to having AIDS, Sommchai has a bad case of tuberculosis and hasn't been able to keep any food or water down for the past three days. Despite the grim circumstances many patients face, Bassano has hope for the future and looks at places like Wat Prabat Nampu as places of life instead of places of death.
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