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Prejudice
against AIDS victims is not just a third world
phenomenon. Amanda Stone, a consultant and AIDS
activist from UK, told members of Bengal Net about
how such prejudice was common in her own country.
To fight against it, some of them decided to set
up a group called Positive Lives.
 Ms
Stone had come to India to liaise with NGOS and
government agencies working in the field of AIDS
relief, and to chart out a course of action against
public prejudice through the visual media. She
met with Bengal Net on July 12 at Taj Bengal.
To
illustrate how the visual media can be used,
Ms Stone told us how Drik India, with its parent
body, Drik International, plans to use photographs
around the theme of AIDS and organise a series
of exhibitions that will be taken to different
parts of India. Each photograph used will be accompanied
by text recounting tales of courage to fight the
odds imposed by this disease. The idea is to have
people realise that AIDS victims are no pariahs
to be ostracised. They need love, care and the
human touch.
Rina
Mukherji
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