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Lately, India is caught up in reacting with ‘ban Karo’ to anything and everything that remotely hurts our pride or disrupts our viewpoints. Ban on certain websites, ban on meat, ban on films, ban this ban that the list goes on. As a person working in the health sector to empower people living with HIV, I would like to briefly talk about the ban on condom TV ads from airing from 10 pm to 6 am. This invariably means limited exposure and reach for the ads and especially during prime time. The condom ads were considered indecent for the viewing of children. On the surface it seems a well-meaning prohibition, however, if we look at the ban in context of few other facts about India such as its bloating population and a worrisome number of annual abortions – it is evident how little India knows or practices safe-sex. According to an article written in 2016 in India Spend 10 million women secretly undergo abortion every year in India, 80% of them at home. Another article that appeared on The ...

A 40-year old husband and father living with HIV, Gnanendra has moved from despair at his diagnosis to pride at helping reduce the incidence of HIV infection in his slum. Gnanendra felt terrible when he learned he was HIV-positive, and his wife’s family wanted her to leave him. HIV/AIDS - Precautions With support from our outreach workers, Gnanendra now works with a mobile counseling and testing unit. He gets a lot of satisfaction from telling his story to motivate people to get HIV tested, and from collecting rice for needy HIV-affected families. Gnanendra says , “Although she was angry with me at first, my wife now hopes our daughters find a husband like me.” Another illustration of how we help ourselves by helping others. For more details visit us https://www.endaidsindia.org/testimonials/from-despair-to-personal-pride-sharing-stories-changing-minds/ End AIDS India is a collaborative campaign proudly undertaken by four non-governmental, non-p...