Studding in a leading private school, the eight-year-old threw a tantrum when his 11-year-old sister missed his birthday last year. Since then, his sister, who studies in an MCD school in East Delhi, reminds her foster mother a day in advance to ensure rakhi and birthdays are never forgotten. The siblings lost their parents to HIV AIDS seven years ago, and have been forced to live separately for the last five years — she is HIV-positive, he is not.
Representatives of CHELSEA, the Shahdara-based NGO where the children were first brought, said no government or private orphanage accepted them together, despite repeated attempts.
A pilot study to identify and assess the living conditions of such HIV-affected children has been flagged off in 10 districts of states across the country by the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) in partnership with NGOs which provide care to such children.
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