It was terrible to read from the recent Goacan Resource post, of the plight of an HIV and AIDS victim in Goa. I wondered, is this an educated, enlightened place of my ancestors or it it some voodoo practicing part of remote tribal Africa.
If they have not even heard that HIV has limited ways of being transmitted, none of them via anything but body fluids, then there is a serious lapse in AIDS awareness in Goa. Instead of building statues on Miramar beach, perhaps the funds would be better spent to bring the people of Goa’s villages into what afflicts people today and out of the burning-spoons-to-drive-out-jaundice era, although Goa’s first recorded HIV case was as far back in 1971. Today, people with HIV take medication that keeps AIDS at bay. These are expensive but it is the duty of government to ensure that people have access to them. Nandkumar Kamat did not mention how that condition of that young man he was talking about steadily deteriorated although it seems he was not taking those drugs to save his life. Roland.
