Sittwe, 9th June 03: "For the people affected with AIDS/HIV there is nowhere to go for succour, said a doctor in Sittwe, the capital of the western Burmese state of Rakhine. When a man aged 45, Thein Zoe Aung, of Kyaungdaklan Street of the town died of AIDS in his own house in April his corpse was bundled in plastic sheeting by the workers of the state hospital and taken for cremation. His house was also disinfected. His relatives said that there is no place to go for any medication or treatment for those suffering from HIV/AIDS. The lone state-run hospital also does not have any wards for HIV/AIDS patients though the number of HIV/AIDS sufferers is on the increase in the state. There has been no study or data collection conducted on the number of HIV/AIDS positive people all over the seventeen townships of Rakhine State including Sittwe..."