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Outrageous – HIV positive family beaten up, thrown out by neighbours

World AIDS Day might be one week away but the stigma and paranoia attached to the disease still hasn't subsided in our country. In a shocking incident of stigmatisation, an HIV positive family was for

By: Admin   | | Updated: November 25, 2012 11:05 am
Tags: HIV stigma  HIV+  Jodhpur  

HIV-AIDSWorld AIDS Day might be one week away but the stigma and paranoia attached to the disease still hasn’t subsided in our country. In a shocking incident of stigmatisation, an HIV positive family was forced out of their home and beaten up by their neighbours. The family has been sleeping on pavements outside the local railway station after their neighbours beat them up and forced them to leave their house when they came to know that they were HIV positive. The couple lived in Jodhpur’s Ambedkar Colony. Police said a complaint has been registered at Sursagar police station in Jodhpur, 330 km from Jaipur. Also Read - Australia halts COVID-19 vaccine development due to false HIV positives

“The man and his wife are HIV infected. An activist of an NGO had come to the couple’s house in Ambedkar Colony for counselling them a fortnight ago. He asked for directions to their house from some neighbours and mistakenly disclosed that the couple was suffering from AIDS,” a police officer told IANS. “The neighbours feared that the couple would spread the disease among others in the colony, so they beat them up and forced them to leave. As they had nowhere else to go, they are spending nights in front of a railway station,” said the officer. Also Read - Don’t believe these myths associated with HIV



He added that the police are taking cognizance of the incident and a complaint has been registered through a court under section 107 of the Code of Criminal Procedural (CrPC). A senior medial and health department officer said that disclosing the identity of an HIV-infected person is punishable under law. “The victims or their family can register a first information report against people who disclose the identity of an AIDS patient,” said the officer. Also Read - People with HIV at higher risk of heart failure

Source: IANS

Published : November 25, 2012 8:52 am | Updated:November 25, 2012 11:05 am
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