The thread of life: a Buddhist temple in Thailand has opened its doors to people with AIDS - and given us all a lesson in how to help others die with dignity
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Wat Phra Baat Nam Phru is one of the Buddhist temples in Thailand that have become AIDS hospices. The monks provide compassionate care and help prepare AIDS patients to die a peaceful and dignified death. Thai philanthropies and foreign donations finance their work.
Publication Name: Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-3019
Year: 1998
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Body language in Somalia: letter from an exhausted land
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A reporter in Somalia to cover Operation Restore Hope offers glimpses of the terrible and threatening events taking place even during the relief operation. She believes that a spiritual degradation affects both inhabitants and visitors.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1993
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Somalia 1992: the casualties
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Photographs of the victims of the famine in Somalia that has killed more than 100,000 in 1992 are presented. The pictures were taken in the town of Baidoa.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1992
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