Access to Life

Photographed shortly after she arrived at a hospital in Thomonde in November, 2007, Adolph, 26, was so diseased and malnourished from AIDS that doctors gave her less than one week to live.
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Patient: Autha Adolph
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Photographed shortly after she arrived at a hospital in Thomonde in November, 2007, Adolph, 26, was so diseased and malnourished from AIDS that doctors gave her less than one week to live.

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