AIDS, a misunderstood malaise

Discrimination against HIV positive patients continues, underscoring the need for concerted efforts on many fronts to give them space and scope in the mainstream public life. A painful fact remains that some patients are discriminated against by their own family members.

To overcome this, many HIV positive people have found a solution on their own: Networking and marriages within the group.

Sapna, president of ‘HIV positive Network People of Ranga Reddy’, says: “I am living with HIV for the past eight years. When I first launched the network of HIV positive people, very few came forward. But now, our network in the state has grown to 60,000 people living with HIV.”

Sapna lamented that there are several cases of discrimination, especially, legal discrimination against HIV positive persons. “People with HIV are denied the right to property,” she said.

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