MYANMAR. Yangon. February 21, 2010. A mother tends to her son, Kyaw Kyaw Win, 33 and HIV-positive, in an AIDS hospital outside Yangon. He later died. Today some 240,000 Burmese live with HIV/AIDS, often a result of intravenous drug use; the death rate is 17,000 a year. A small budget for antiviral drugs makes AIDS "a relatively fatal condition," notes Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Chris Beyrer. Myanmar spends nearly two times more on defense than on health and education.