Social Awareness campaigns on AIDS and the incident in Tamil Nadu

From the archive record

1998 saw an incident in Tamil Nadu concerning a man accused of injecting people with AIDS infected blood. NACO and other NGOs took the initiative to break social awareness on AIDS through different forms of media. They also share the problems of stigma and segregation faced by infected individuals due to a lack of awareness. They also point out how individuals of the medical fraternity react to infected people, the mental and physical effects on infected individuals. A truck driver talks of the rumors in his circle about the spread of AIDS. A survivor Johan talks of the mode of his infection by the virus and the stigma he has undergone over the years. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South