Anil Kumar Valiv founded a website in which individuals suffering from HIV/AIDS are able to search for dating partners who also suffer from the disease. The website, www.positivesaaathi.com , is an e-harmony of sorts for the AIDS/HIV sufferers in India. Valiv was inspired to create the site when one of his friends, an AIDS victim wished to life a relatively normal lifestyle, but was not able to use other dating websites because there was no way to search for individuals who also carried the disease. This type of dating website allows couples to date and not spread the disease, communication between individuals with the same disease, and a more normal lifestyle especially given the pressure to marry put on young men and women in India.
Valiv hopes that this anonymous dating website will give HIV/AIDS victims the normalcy that they deserve and also stop the spread of AIDS in India. Knowing, sons are often times married off to healthy women, thereby infecting the bride. The website also includes basic information about HIV/AIDS as well as helpline numbers and clinic addresses.
Websites like this are brilliant and necessary. It is only fair for a victim of a disease to be afforded a lifestyle that is as normal as possible, without endangering the health of another; this website allows that right. Websites such as this should be made available in each and every country if they are not already.
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4 comments:
That's not an entirely bad idea actually. Its good to see that attempts are being made to accommodate the infected to help live normal lives, while working to reduce the risk of spreading the disease. Sounds like a safe strategy.
I think this is a really good idea. I think a lot of the time people with HIV/AIDS are considered social outcasts, and with a tool like this they would be able to lead a more normal life with other people on a more intimate level.
I think this strategy is a good one on paper. However, who knows how it will play on in reality. I think that accommodating those infected with HIV/AIDS with a partner will help them lead a more normal life. On the other hand, now the world knows you are infected. The internet is such a public place, this could be a tool used unmorally.
I think this strategy is a good one on paper. However, who knows how it will play on in reality. I think that accommodating those infected with HIV/AIDS with a partner will help them lead a more normal life. On the other hand, now the world knows you are infected. The internet is such a public place, this could be a tool used unmorally.
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