http://livesinfocus.org/aids Just another Lives in Focus weblog Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:17:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CHENNAI, INDIA--David, 37, injects heroin daily--a schedule that has never varied for the past 15 years. Despite perpetually running short on cash to buy his fix, he has never been desperate enough, he says, to share needles. Audio slideshow: A drug addict injects despite HIV fears "I know how HIV goes from ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/11/28/addiction/ Human Rights Watch recently invited Lives in Focus to collaborate on a Web log in conjunction with the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada from Aug. 13-18. One of the speakers, Anand Grover, the co-founder of the Mumbai Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit, delivered a speech on the second day of ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/08/14/arv-production-is-an-indian-government-responsibility/ Dr. Troy Cunningham Troy Cunningham did not intend to spend too much energy in his temporary job as an HIV/AIDS awareness counselor in the late 90s. He had taken one year off to study for his medical entrance exams and was told this job entailed light work and plenty of time ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/07/22/making-a-big-decision/ click image for video Raj Shekhar was 30-years-old when he needed a blood transfusion after an accident. That transfusion, more than the accident itself, changed his life unexpectedly. Nearly a year later, he tested HIV positive when he was hospitalized after experiencing massive chest pains. Instead of being admitted to the ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/06/15/hiv-contaminated-blood/ Shabana Shabana, 20, realized she was HIV+ after her husband’s health began rapidly deteriorating. A Muslim woman, she now serves as a counselor trying to educate those in her community about the dangers of HIV/AIDS and how it spreads. Lives in Focus has profiled her in a video interview and talked to ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/06/07/what-did-marriage-bring-me/ click for video preview Lives in Focus editors highly recommend a new documentary titled “The Age of AIDS” which is produced by Frontline, one of the world’s best television news magazine programs. The four-hour documentary is a must-see if you want a deeper understanding of this disease. The program describes itself ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/05/31/the_age_of_aids/ Nirmala Kumari worked as a domestic worker in the Middle East for nearly ten years. She earned a good salary—especially when compared to Indian standards for the same work. She wired most of her earnings to her husband every month to help care for their two sons and saved some ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/05/26/working-in-the-middle-east-and-hiv/ In countries with a high prevalence of AIDS, the epidemic decimates the young to middle-aged adult population—the backbone of the labor that supports both the national economy and the family. Slideshow: Elderly Mother Bears AIDS Burden In the absence of men and women of working-age, older relatives often resume the burden of ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/04/25/in_countries_wi/ click image for video When I first asked Bikhshapati his age, he didn't understand my question. I asked again, "Are you five? Six?" He answered in English but seeing the confusion on my face, he reached down and scrawled the number "12" in the sand. I was shocked. For a moment I suspected ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/04/18/when_i_first_as/ Dr. K. Venu, chief of Hyderabad's Government General Chest Hospital, treats an unrelenting stream of patients who come to the hospital for Tuberculosis treatment only to find that they have AIDS. In India, TB is the most lethal opportunistic infection preying on those weakened by AIDS. click image for video Despite the ... http://livesinfocus.org/aids/2006/04/06/a_glimmer_of_ho/