Dr. Anne Goldfeld, founder of the Cambodian Health Committee comforted, Ngeng Thi Ung, 34, a Vietnamese woman who had been a sex worker and was in a government hospital in Phnom Penh with advanced tuberculosis and AIDS.
Kong Chan, 44, with tuberculosis, languished alone in his small hut in the remote village of Kampong Ro, unable to work while his children scavenged in the rice fields for single grains of rice and crawfish to feed the family.
A doctor with the Cambodian Health Committee examined Yin Ron, 52 with tuberculosis, during a home visit to Pothmei, a remote village in the countryside.
Sopheak Rak, 27, suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and cryptococcal meningitis in the MSF hospital in Phnom Penh lay in bed as a doctor examined an x-ray of her lungs.
A pilgrimage to the holy Shiite shrine of Al Hussein in Karbala was held on April 22 and 23. Shiites from around Iraq and also from Iran attended. Women prayed in front of the shrine that was built on the site of Imam Hussein's murder.