Positive Lives in India: A new Book

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Positive Lives

The Statesman 3 March 2002 - Kalpana Jain

The book presents a raw face of society, one we are afraid to look at, but the

author finds redeeming and positive stories to tell as well among the lives of

Indians living with HIV and AIDS. Jain is a journalist who took six months'

leave from her job with The Times of India, and travelled all over the country

on her savings to find out how people are living with the HIV virus. Besides

telling moving stories about people afflicted with the virus, the books also

uncovers related social issues: the changing sexual mores of the middle class,

how poverty affects the spread of HIV, the ambivalent attitude of the government

and the medical establishment, and the politics of donors and NGOs.

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