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Hospices for HIV positive women in villages

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Government plans to set up separate hospices for HIV positive women. Besides treatment, they would be given skill-based training at these places.

The move comes in the wake of a recent incident at Meerut where doctors refused to deliver the child of a HIV positive woman.

Union Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury said here on Monday the Government intended to start hospices in villages for women, who were thrown out of their homes due to their HIV positive status.

The Minister launched National Women Forum, a wing of NGO Indian Network of People Living with HIV.

Pointing out that condom use should not only be talked about in terms of family planning, Ms. Chowdhury said it was a health measure that protected one from getting infected with sexually transmitted diseases and HIV.

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