Positive Lives: The Story of Ashok and Others
By Kalpana Jain.
Description
In 1989, Ashok Pillai, a radio operator in the Navy, tested positive for HIV. Thirteen years later, he is among the few courageous men and women who have come ‘open’, in order to extend support to those living with HIV and to spread awareness about the virus. It is a difficult battle, and an enormously important one. Today, HIV has assumed epidemic proportions. By 2001, close to 4 million men, women and children all over India, and across all classes, had been infected by it; one person per minute still continues to get the virus. In Positive Lives, journalist Kalpana Jain, d...
ISBN(s)
0143028170, 9780143028178
