Kamal Hassan's take on HIV/AIDS

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Kamal Hassan’s take on HIV/AIDS

October 26: Kamal Hassan says he is finding “a new reason to get involved every

other day” in the campaign to stop HIV, especially after the success of the

Heroes Project in which he participated with iconic campaigner and actor

Gere. Everyone is familiar with the range of health issues that Kamal has

brought to the screen (addiction and psychosis) and practised off-screen

(campaigns for organ donation).

He is now discovering that HIV/AIDS calls for not mere intellectual involvement

but a great deal of emotional support. Some of that feeling came to the fore

when he met two small girls who were HIV positive during the Hyderabad event in

which he and Gere lent their support to people living with HIV/Aids: one

of the girls has a name that struck a strong personal chord.

Here is his take on issues: be safe about whatever you are doing, including sex,

demand forcefully that cheap drugs be made available to those who need it and

persuade the moral police to stop making impractical appeals.

Would the film industry come to the aid of a star who declares that he is HIV

positive? “Certainly we will do everything we can to support that person, ”he

says.

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Posted by: K. Sam Prasanth Kumar

Source: The Hindu

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