Il virus in Thailandia

(AP Photo/David Longstreath)

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, tuberculosis and HIV patient Tana Tip, 33, looks on from the isolation ward at Wat Prabat Nampu, in Lopburi, Thailand. As World AIDS Day approaches it is estimated by non governmental agencies that in 2008 more than 800,000 Thai’s, adults and children, were infected with the HIV virus with an estimated 31,000 deaths in 2007 in Thailand from AIDS.