HIV positives in the Indian Society

Amidst this pandemic caused due to the well-known having an of extinction covid-19, before you an article on another virus HIV, which dominates several parts of the world even in this modern age being within the shades of the Indian society.

The Human Immuno Deficiency Virus, the HIV causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS which involves damaging the immune system and making it vulnerable to a wide range of diseases and finally leads to the path of death.

Since, the first case in 1981 in San Francisco resident Ken Horne, this disease came up to become a worldwide epidemic. In India, this disasters virus spread its effect first in some female prostitutes in the city of Chennai in 1986. The physician who pioneered this unknown virus and brought relevant research was Dr Suniti Solomon and her eccentric student Dr Sellappan Nirmala.

India accounts for being the second largest home to this deadly syndrome with a record of 5.134 million cases until this very year. After the first case, the country seemed to be spellbound, while the Government of India took a rapid step and opened the National AIDS Control Organisation the same year. the main aim for the formation of Neko was to spread awareness through the National AIDS Control Programme which unfolded its duties in a series of steps. Out of every hundred people in India, 0.22 % are affected by AIDS. India ranks 3rd in the highest number of AIDS-infected people in the whole world.

But, the main problem which is more pathetic lies with the socio-cultural mindset of the people of India who are highly irrational about the issue. There are about 2 million AIDS orphan in India and a more number of vulnerable people to this deadly virus. The children are at high risk and threatened the health and educational disparities. According to an orphanage in Hyderabad, AIDS orphans are 1.3 times more depressed than orphans for other reasons, the proportion being the highest in girls.

education is somewhat like a dream to them the cost of curing age is so much high that families are not able to send their children to schools and they are being pushed to the sense of child labour, trafficking and prostitution. India constitutes 17% AIDS de facto orphans. This stigma of AIDS is vastly more severe than AIDS itself.

The governments both at the State and the Central level play a decisive role for the better living of the AIDS infection. India pledged the UN Assembly to provide better resources for AIDS orphans in 2001 and became the first country to raise a national response in 2006. The HIV/AIDS Bill of 2014 and the Juvenile Justice Act of 2015 are the notable ones. Thus, people of India need to build a strong resistance for breaking this stigma and accommodate the AIDS-infected people in the mainstream of society.