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?
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