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Manipur's HIV-affected women suffer for husband's sins
DNA India | Gaurav Sharma | IANS | Imphal, Mar 31
Rachel's only fault was that she unknowingly fell in love with a man who was an injecting drug user (IDU), contracted AIDS and infected her too with the incurable condition.
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Manipur, with a population of 2.8 million, has an estimated 38,016 people infected with HIV, including 10,109 women and 2,578 children. "We are stigmatised and ostracised by society. Even our family members hesitate to accept us. In some cases, our children have been taken away from us," said Bema, another Manipuri woman living with HIV.
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"We help these women by arranging for vocational training for them so that they can become self-reliant," said Babita, a community development coordinator at the Hope Care Centre.
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