children with AIDS

Our country is the third largest HIV epidemic in the world. And 1st December marked as World AIDS Day, is a reminder that even though there is a long battle ahead of us against this life-threatening condition, the fight is against the disease, not the people affected by it.

Bhavana Nissima visited a home for children of HIV+ve parents in Chennai. She came away touched, informed, pensive, and in some inexplicable way, happy. More importantly, she learnt a few of life's lessons she could only have learnt in that place. Here she tells us what these were.