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Week of July 27, 2008

Buddhist Monks Help Out
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Thailand has one of the best records in the world for preventing HIV, but the government recently cut funding for those programs. Picking up the slack are Buddhist monks.

In a country where 90% of the people are Buddhist, the monks say it was only natural for HIV patients to turn to them when their own families rejected them. Cynthia Graber reports.

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AIDS  HIV  Buddhist monks    
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