An open letter to President of India Ensure Universal Treatment Accessibility .

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To,

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam,

President of India,

Rastrapati Bhavan,

New Delhi, India.

Sub: An open letter to Ensure Universal Treatment Accessibility of

the Citizens Living with HIV in India.

Hon'ble Sir,

On the eve of " INTERNATIONAL CANDLE LIGHT MEMORIAL DAY " as well

as " GLOBAL AIDS WEEK OF ACTION " , I would like to take the privilege

to draw your kind attention by remembering our " Citizens Died of

AIDS " to protect the " Rights of Universal Accessibility To

Treatment " of the " Citizens Living with HIV in India " today.

As an ordinary citizen living with HIV for more than 7 years in

India and currently in 2nd line Anti Retroviral Therapy, under the

treatment of School of Tropical Medicines, Kolkata, without the

support of 2nd line Anti Retroviral Drugs as per National Aids

Control Policy.

We the citizens of India needs 2nd line ARD towards our productive

healthy life are living with the support of the foreign donors, with

an unknown support future. Some of them already withdraw support all

on a certain to some people like me, just avoiding Humanitarian

aspect of the stakeholders towards livelihood.

The National Aids Control Policy itself violating the Right to

Survive of the Indian Citizens like me by allowing us to die without

Treatment, although it is called as a Right Based Policy. The Policy

is just ignoring Citizens Lives as well as loosing National Human

Resource or National Productivity, causing " shortage in fund " or

mentioning the lives, " Small in Numbers " . Practically, which means

our Government do not give any value to the lives, if they are small

in number! Hopefully, Constitution of India do not support above

mentioned logic of National Aids Control Policy ideally. Indian

Constitution indicates equal opportunity for every citizen.

Under these circumstances, I would like to forward my humble request

to you as President of India to take urgent necessary action to save

the lives of Indian citizens living with HIV needs 2nd line ARD with

an unknown future or to save us not to die without Universal

Accessibility of Treatment.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

Snehansu Bhaduri.

49/A/1, B.P.Dey Street,

Serampore, Hooghly,

West Bengal, India.

Pin- 712201

Ph: +91-33-26521519

E-mail: snehansu_bhaduri@...