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Adam Richards will make yet another visit this December to the borders of Burma, where he will train the intrepid health workers known as backpack medics. Moving among the camps for displaced ethnic minorities, he'll work with local community organizations to prepare the medics who cross the borders and risk their lives to provide health care for victims of the notoriously corrupt junta's 46-year-old system of abuse. (
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