End AIDS India

“Within a year into my marriage, my husband fell ill and quickly became bedridden. He was diagnosed with HIV and AIDS . My health was normal at that time but in the routine spouse test, I too tested HIV positive. I didn’t know much about HIV except that it is a deadly disease. I was young and terrified. Instead of supporting me, my husband and his family began abusing me. They blamed me for infecting my husband. They started questioning my character. Eventually, they literally kicked me out of the house and I had no choice but to return to my parents”, says Dimple who was rejected by her in-laws for no fault of hers. Another young mother says, “I was neglected and denied of proper care by healthcare workers during the birth of my second child because of my HIV status. It is the deepest pain that I live with that I couldn’t protect my child from getting infected with HIV.” Discrimination of any form and in any place is a violation of human rights and a barrier to achieving a ...

End AIDS India is a national campaign by four trusted Indian not for profit NGOs that work collectively to accelerate the response to the HIV epidemic to secure a healthier future for India. #Children   are future leaders, innovators and thinkers. It is on us to give them all that they need to be who they can be. Let's start with good health. Please support access to treatment,   #nutrition   and #education   for children living with   #HIV : tinyurl.com/y7b8cj3f   #HealthFirst   #EndAIDSIndia   #HIV   Abhishek, a young student is   #HIV +. He approached us desperately seeking help. Heres how our team supported him -   https:// www.endaidsindia.org/ latest-news-posts/ making-college-education-po ssible/ Let's join hands to ensure that young men like Abhishek are not left behind. That they have all the tools they need to reach their full   #potential .   #HealthFirst   #EndAIDSIndia https://www.endaidsindia.org...

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 ...