Another visiting government official took up a collection when he got back to his office and sent a donation to the hospital's pediatric AIDS ward.
Since 1988, more than 1,000 patients have passed through Wanaque's 120-bed AIDS ward.
A boy rode up on a bicycle with a story about his mother, a former heroin addict who was wasting away in an AIDS ward.
One day a week she volunteers at a hospital as a nurse's aide in an AIDS ward, and no one there knows she's a doctor.
A volunteer in an AIDS ward tells of a patient who said to him, "Thank you for touching me."
My favorite patient on the hospital's AIDS ward is refusing to sign his "do not resuscitate" orders.
The AIDS ward was behind four sets of locked doors.
This is the AIDS ward for babies, and they are all dying.
The artworks were donated to pediatric AIDS wards around the city.
He will then begin serving a year sentence on the state charges at the AIDS ward.