HIV AIDS

What began as a wildlife encounter became a story of courage, queerness, and healing — told through the lens of a 23-year-old filmmaker.

As a trans woman and person living with HIV, Amruta Alpesh Soni has had to fight many odds — rape, violence, abuse and mockery. Watch this video to see to find how she emerged victorious and is using her experiences to improve multiple lives in her community.

In 2007, Vanlalruati Colney started the Positive Women's Network of Mizoram to help persons living with HIV (PLHIV) in her state find access to medication, rehabilitation, legal assistance, nutrition, education and employment. She talks about her journey as an HIV positive woman, and the challenges she had to overcome.

“Many with young HIV+ kids came to our door. I didn’t want to send anybody back. In the next 6 months, I had 26 children join the family. By 2010, I was a father to 55 children!”

One of the world’s largest privately sponsored HIV prevention programmes, 9,000 hardworking volunteers and 1 visionary man. #PublicHealth #India #ImpactThatMatters

"I already had an inkling of the dire consequences of our diet. But I woke up to the problem only after I encountered the case of a girl who had begun menstruating at the age of six. I was shocked!"

From a welcoming home to a dignified death, Ravi Kalra is doing the impossible - saving society's forgotten and abandoned citizens. #HeroesOfHumanity

According to the 2017 UNAIDS data, new HIV infections in India have decreased by 46%, and AIDS-related deaths have decreased by 22% since 2010.

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.

In 1986, Dr. Suniti Solomon documented the first cases of the HIV infection in India. This is the little-known story of how this amazing doctor's work in HIV startled India's medical fraternity and pushed the government to act against the deadly disease 30 years ago.