Clinic on frontier of AIDS care

Center provides medicine for Chinese, needy across border in Myanmar, reports Shan Juan in Ruili, Yunnan province.

Every third month, A Yu (not her real name) an ethnic Chinese from Myanmar who has full-blown AIDS, drives for 45 minutes to visit a clinic in Ruili, Yunnan province, where she replenishes her supply of medicine and undergoes medical checkups.

The neatly dressed 33-year-old contracted the disease from her late husband, who died of AIDS in 2004, and she has been receiving free antiviral medication at the Better Clinic on Guomen Street, Ruili, Yunnan province, for seven months.