Yesu Babu of Vambay Colony in Vijayawada is 12. He has lost both his parents to AIDS. His younger brother is positive. There are almost 2 million AIDS orphans like him in India. But the national and global response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in India has virtually ignored children, reports Shelley Seale

Many experts feel that it’s time we moved beyond HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns and began seriously tackling the practical considerations of getting medicines to patients. Awareness is important, but it’s useless if we cannot provide the medicines, they tell Ranjita Biswas

Zarina is just one of thousands of HIV-positive people caught between a government that cannot provide care and treatment to all, a private sector that is expensive and swarming with quacks, and NGOs that are driven by their own agendas. Manjima Bhattacharjya tells her story

A young Indian couple in Saudi Arabia, a 15-year-old boy in Ahmedabad, a farm labourer in Surat and many others have committed suicide to escape the stigma and discrimination that HIV-positive people face. Why does discrimination continue despite crores of rupees spent on awareness campaigns in the past two decades, asks Ranjita Biswas

Women living with HIV/AIDS tell their stories of battling both the disease and the societies they live in