Five HIV Positive People Come to Public
Coinciding with the World AIDS Day on 1 st December 2011, five HIV Positive people decided to go public with their disease. These brave acts on the part of these people will go down in the Bhutanese history as an exemplary deed who put their life, reputation and public out casting on the line to educate people about AIDS and demystify so that people do not conceive the AIDS as demonized killer as the people conceived now. Such brave actions from them wouldn’t have come in more opportune time than now when Bhutan has detected 270 HIV Positive people with 48 people dead till now since its first detection in 1998. In last month alone 24 people were detected. UNAIDS estimated that Bhutan would have more than 500 infected people till now. This brave action is also an opportunity to view the disease from the third perspectives. Till now, we have been hearing about the AIDS from only two perspectives; health and Public. Till recently, the media and health officials have e...