AIDS awareness in redlight districts of Bombay in the 1990's, in Mumbai

From the archive record

Volunteers distribute protection to the crowd of men in the vicinity of a redlight district in Mumbai. commercial sex workers can be seen outside the houses in the redlight area. An interview with a survivor whose husband and son were taken away by AIDS. She also relates route through which she got infected with AIDS. A doctor examines a patient and speaks to interviewers. "I find a lot of socio-economic impact of the situation. I find that our women and children will be having a lot of burdens in the future. They don't find a red carpet treatment meted out to them. India is a great country, in population, it is second to one, and in HIV it is second to none. It is true because there's not a single country in the world with 4 million HIV infected in the world." This footage is part of the