So far two groups of children – infected (those who are HIV) and affected children (those who are member of an AIDS affected person’s family) were in the focus of discussion. But now more comprehensive view is emerging.
Only in the mid-1990s did India start to acknowledge the worsening crisis, and the central government woke up to take action. But the response to children ’experiences with HIV/AIDS has been piecemeal, compared with the response towards adult.
Currently only a few Indian hospitals, all in the big coastal cities and far from the vast majority of infected citizens, are equipped to treat AIDS, and the cost of treatment is far too high for average citizens to afford. These factors, combined with the unwillingness of the government at the local level to take actions such as prevention awareness, converge to increase the likelihood of a future AIDS tragedy in India.
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