Mother Teresa to Set Up AIDS Hospice in New Delhi
<i> Reuters</i>
NEW DELHI —
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa plans to set up a hospice for women and children AIDS patients in New Delhi, the Press Trust of India said Friday.
Mother Teresa, who started her work in the slums of Calcutta, described AIDS victims in the 1980s as “the lepers of our times” and vowed to work for them. She has opened hospices in the United States and Haiti.
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