HIV

Sports became a sanctuary for HIV-positive youth through the ‘Champion in Me’ initiative, empowering them to break free from stigma and build resilience. Founded by Elvis Joseph, their multiple programs have impacted over 40,000 lives, offering children like Sonika and Manik a platform to excel, find hope, and inspire change.

Surendar Kaur, a resident of Haryana, works with NGO SAATHII, and has so far helped around 200 pregnant women living with HIV gain access to healthcare, timely medication, counselling and more.

Kousalya Periasamy from Tamil Nadu runs the Positive Women Network, an organisation which aims to provide affordable medical access, counselling, vocational training for jobs, and quality education and health care to children of HIV-positive parents.

Help Mangaltai manage a care home for orphans with HIV called Palawi in a small village near Pandharpur town, Maharashtra. Here's what you can do.

A day in the life of a caregiver who is working with HIV positive pregnant women, and destigmatising the disease, in Mizoram.

The plant has come into the limelight recently due to its immunomodulatory and antiviral activity after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is easy to declare some place as 'disturbed', or to pretend that drugs and disease happen only to others. Real heroes stand up and make a difference. These heroes from Nagaland did that - and should be famous across India.

The London Patient is the second ever case of HIV who recovered and remains virus-free to this day, four years since he first underwent the procedure.

Once the COVID vaccine is developed, countries like India need to plan on who will get access to it first. The frontline health workers, those with co-morbidities, the economically backward section, or a completely different set?

From battling the stigma against HIV to building bridges, this former pastor has done it all for his remote district.