World AIDS Day: What people need more than just treatment and medication

Care has just collapsed into treatment, people need more than just treatment and medication when we are talking about care.

The government has run several programmes, hundreds of NGOs have created awareness about HIV/AIDS, yet there remains a significant gap when it comes to people living with HIV (PLHIV) getting the right treatment, largely because of the persisting stigma and a lack of knowledge.

On the eve of World AIDS Day, experts said apart from the government it was also up to the PLHIV themselves to tell their stories to encourage more number of affected people to come out and receive treatment.

This would also help uproot the stigma, they added.

Mona Balani, a PLHIV activist working with 'India HIV/AIDS Alliance', said that