HIV-positive activist
beats odds, fights prejudice
Saroja Puthra, president of Karnataka Network for People Living with HIV/ AIDS, who is HIV positive was told 10 years ago she had
three months to live.
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‘These brothels are like graveyards filled with zombies’
Welcome to K.R. Market, the closest thing Bangalore has to a red-light area. Sex is cheap there, and the sex workers are vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases. |
Awareness is
the way forward
Twenty years of AIDS awareness programs in the country have “gone to waste” mainly because government schools do not permit sex education, according toSunanda Nath, coordinator at INSA-India, an organization that deals with issues related to health and development worldwide.
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