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I just heard a story about the situation in Thailand, Burma and Myanmar. It was about a single woman who was forced to work as a sex slave for about a year in bangkok. She got out of the business and got married, but didn't know she had AIDS until her husband and son died from it. Yesterday she had to quit her job in a restaurant because she was too exhausted to continue working there. She has just been approved to be given AIDS medicine by the Thai government.
The medicine from America costs over five thousand dollars a month. From the Thais, it costs a little less than a dollar a day.
As an incentive to keep researching, it's important for companies to profit from their research. But PLEASE tell me how it benefits the people afflicted with the disease when they can't afford the treatment.
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