India: Parents pull kids out of school with HIV pupils

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall at union.org.za
Mon Mar 3 19:23:51 PST 2003


Parents pull kids out of school with HIV pupils KOLLAM (India) - Seven-year-old Bency John and her five-year-old brother Benson are the only pupils left at their school in India's southern Kerala state.

The reason - the orphaned siblings are HIV-positive, and all their schoolmates at the state-run Kaithakuzhi Lower Primary School had been yanked out by parents fearing the two could infect their children with the virus. Full http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,174870,00.html? --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]



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