Guest guest Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Dear Ashok, April 19, brings in memory of having lost you to death. But every year on this day thinking about your role as advocate for people living with HIV makes me feel that you are still alive. This year I did a small search. I googled your name ˜Ashok Pillai“ it brought in many matches. Reading them made me feel that even in death you have continued to have a voice. I found articles, photographs and interviews “on living with HIV, ending stigma against positive people and asking governments leadership on treatment€“ every thing had you and INP+ in it. I found you smile in the poster courageous in the decision to come out open. Your strength and honesty evident in the smile you adorned your face with not a trace of fear. All this to remind me that you were real a true activist who put the community of people living with HIV before everything. Even Toxoplasmosis and the fits it brought to you, did not deter you from working hard. You discontinued the ART from a private organization because it would compromise your advocacy. And many other instances where in pressure you performed like a true leader and set standards which to this date stand unparallel. For everyone who knew Ashok and did know his activism - please light a candle at 1pm on April 19, 2010 to rekindle in each of us the spirit of activism this would be a fitting solidarity to a leader of his grit! Joe Editor AIDS INDIA / Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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