Hope Lives in South Africa AIDS Clinic

December 1st, 2006 in Medicine & Health / Other
Hope Lives in South Africa AIDS Clinic (AP)

Dr. Hugo Templeman, poses for a photograph with a patient at the Ndlovu Medical Center, in Elandsdoorn, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006. Templeman, a Dutch physician, founded the center 12 years ago in the remote and dusty crossroads in the South African countryside. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

(AP) -- Four women emaciated by AIDS, perilously close to death and abandoned by the state health care system, cling tenaciously to life at a remote clinic where doctors give them one last fighting chance.

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