A volunteer chooses not to wear gloves when giving messages to HIV positive patients in order to give them the rare chance of human touch at the Wat Prah Bat Nam Phu hospice

A volunteer chooses not to wear gloves when giving messages to HIV positive patients in order to give them the rare chance of human touch at the Wat Prah Bat Nam Phu hospice

Photograph

John Stanmeyer

Maker
American, b. 1964

A volunteer chooses not to wear gloves when giving messages to HIV positive patients in order to give them the rare chance of human touch at the Wat Prah Bat Nam Phu hospice

From Sex, Drugs and Death: AIDS Let Loose In Asia


1998
Inkjet print
Image: 9 1/2 × 14 1/16 in. (24.2 × 35.7 cm)
Paper: 11 3/4 × 16 in. (29.8 × 40.7 cm)
Gift of the FiftyCrows Foundation, 2015
2015.0133.1255

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