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Today Daw San Mya Khaing (29) and her son, Myo Thant Zin (3) are visiting the clinic to get their blood results. Myo’s blood results today are very good and another sample of blood is taken to test for haemoglobin, liver and kidney function. Last year she tested positive for HIV and for TB. She and her son are now both doing well on antiretroviral therapy (ARVs). Her husband was a manual labourer on construction sites and travelled a lot. He died of an AIDS related illness last year.

She lives with her mother and five sisters in the local township and is open to a few people about her HIV status. She works as a manual worker with no regular or fixed daily wages, often at the fish factory where she can earn 1500K per day ($1.35).

 

 

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Uploaded on June 23, 2015
Taken on October 13, 2014