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Nature 436, 496-498 (28 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436496a; Published online 27 July 2005
India The coming epidemic
Apoorva Mandavilli1
Abstract
A staggering 5.1 million people are estimated to be HIV positive in India. Apoorva Mandavilli finds a country on the brink of a crisis.
Our son was born in June 1998. He was healthy but after eight months, he had diarrhoea and fever all the time. He was in the hospital many times. The sixth time, they diagnosed him with AIDS. That was when we found out that my wife and I have HIV. Our son died 12 July 2002. I also started to get sick. I didn't take my medicines regularly; they didn't tell me not to do that. Now my health has become worse. I haven't worked in six months. We'll be paupers. I don't know what we're going to do.
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