Children with HIV/AIDS being ignored in India

[Guest guest]

The July 28 Asian Age reports :

The warning sounded at the recent Bangkok conference about an iminenet AIDS

explosion in India has been powerfully reinforced by Human Rights Watch, a New

York based organisation, which observes that the government's failure to check

abuses against children affected by HIV/AIDS is placing million of lives at

risk.

The organisation cautions that India's entire AIDS control starety of focussing

almost entirely on so-called high risk groups (sex workers and truck drivers) is

inadequite as in at least six states - Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,

Maharashtra, Nagaland and Manipur - the disease has spread into the general

population. HIV-affected children, including those living with the disease are

'nearly invisible' as far as government's anti-AIDS strategy is

concerned.

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Arati Samajpati

E-mail:<parivartan@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear FORUM,

Is the AIDS interest-group of the world so weak as to be unable to bring

pressure to bear on Indian Govt. from the World Legal authority sitting at

The Hague or is it that their interpretations are not based on reliable data

which fails to convince The hague or any other authoritative body of the

UN/civil society/govts?.

Indira

E-mail: <indira@...>