{"id":384,"date":"2017-10-06T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/?p=384"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T09:19:46","slug":"let-me-wipe-your-tears-and-touch-your-hearta-memory-of-volunteers-working-with-people-affected-by-tb-and-tbhiv-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/?p=384&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Let me wipe your tears and touch your heart\u2026A memory of volunteers working with people affected by TB and TB\/HIV in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"art-postheader\"><strong style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">2010:\u00a0 Let me wipe your tears and touch your heart\u2026A memory of volunteers working with people affected by TB and TB\/HIV in Thailand<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"art-postcontent clearfix\">\n<div class=\"art-article\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/let-me.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"78\" height=\"113\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the book:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (pocket book \u201350 pages colorful artwork)<\/p>\n<p>The book presents stories of eight patient volunteers\u2019 best practices and the volunteers\u2019 most inspiring experiences in caring for people with TB and TB with HIV co-infection (TB\/HIV). These patients were not only physically suffering from the diseases but they also encountered social, economic and psychological difficulties that often left them feeling hopeless, depressed and at times with little or no motivation to live. However, the patient volunteers depicted in these stories turned these patients\u2019 crisis into opportunities. Many of the patients in the end were cured from TB and thus empowered to live. Some of the patients became volunteers themselves.\u00a0 Although a few of the patients died during the course of their TB treatment, as a result of the volunteers dedication all of these patients died with a measure of dignity that they had never known before<\/p>\n<p>Read now to understand the real meaning of \u201cpatient empowerment\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Book-Eng-Final.pdf\"><strong>Click here to download the book\u00a0<em>(0.44 MB)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/anonymous-embed.html?u=aebbb&amp;d=english-let_me_wipe_your_tears_and_touch_your_hear\" width=\"944\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/aebbb\/docs\/english-let_me_wipe_your_tears_and_touch_your_hear?mode=window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open publication<\/a> &#8211; Free <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publishing<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/search?q=foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More foundation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010:\u00a0 Let me wipe your tears and touch your heart\u2026A memory of volunteers working with people affected by TB and TB\/HIV in Thailand About the book:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (pocket book \u201350 pages colorful artwork) The book presents stories of eight patient volunteers\u2019 best practices and the volunteers\u2019 most inspiring experiences in caring for people with TB and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tbhivfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}