<p>YANGON (Reuters) The mom and child who hold hands in an packed Yangon hospice are not family, though their comfortless story starts in a blood.
Jam, 42, a mom of six, and Kanama, aged 2, are both HIV positive. Abandoned by their families, they contingency now find comfort in any other, nonetheless Jam still yearns for her father to lapse to a private HIV hospice in a suburbs of Myanmars biggest city.
He betrothed to come behind though Im fearful he never will, pronounced a lady as she detonate into tears. She is famous in a hospice by her nickname, Jam.
The hospice is home to 182 HIV patients, whose predicament demonstrates a unpleasant boundary of Myanmars new democracy. A reform-minded government has vowed to renovate a hoary health system, though small change is expected for HIV/AIDS sufferers, who interjection to amicable tarnish and medical neglect, are tighten off in hospices that move to mind leper colonies.
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