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Fighting the stigma (the video is loading, may take long. Please bear with us...)

Updated on Dec 01, 2007 09:34 pm IST

They seem like regular kids who dream big. Only, they are not. For these kids, time is ticking away fast because they are infected with HIV. AIDS activists in India say that lack of awareness and widespread stigma and discrimination have contributed to paranoia about the dreaded virus with reports of infected children being expelled from schools and patients denied treatment in hospitals.

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