Ultimately, the goal is to ensure every child born in Ukhrul has a life free of HIV/AIDS and a life full of hope.
India is a country of its own - I would never had been able to anticipate what I was about to experience.
Richard Feachem, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS views India as “the decisive battleground” in the fight against AIDS, given its position as global trading center in the heart of the world’s most populous region.
Indian chai tea, every morning...yum.
good morning sunshine :)
Tim Hooey, executive director of the Nehemiah Project. he's rad.Tim started The Nehemiah Project with the goal of to educating, caring for, and treating pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS as well as educating and caring for HIV affected children in Ukhrul.
Downtown Delhi
Bees for a snack.
The unprotected, the helpless, the truly innocent in this story are the babies born to women living with HIV/AIDS. Babies born to women living with HIV/AIDS are born without a choice and often without a chance.
More than 35% of babies born to women living with HIV/AIDS in Ukhrul will contract HIV/AIDS. Most of the children will not live to see their 5th birthday. Instead of a life of sickness and struggle.
Even as it moves into the general population, the HIV epidemic is misunderstood and stigmatized among the Indian public. People living with HIV have faced violent attacks; been rejected by families, spouses and communities; been refused medical treatment; and even, in some reported cases, denied the last rites before they die.
India is the next AIDS time bomb waiting to explode. It has the second-highest HIV-positive population in the world after South Africa, with an official tally of 3.5 million HIV-positive residents and an unofficial count of closer to 5 million.
Awon.
This woman embodies everything that The Nehemiah Project exists for: she and her husband both being HIV positive, have saved their daughter's life by feeding her formula and prevented her from receiving the HIV virus. She is the beginning of many others that are choosing to save lives by setting examples for their village.
With the proper care and treatment the chance of a mother passing the virus to her child is virtually eliminated. There is great hope in this seemingly hopeless situation.
This woman embodies everything that The Nehemiah Project exists for: she and her husband both being HIV positive, have saved their daughter's life by feeding her formula and prevented her from receiving the HIV virus. She is the beginning of many others that are choosing to save lives by setting examples for their village.
With the proper care and treatment the chance of a mother passing the virus to her child is virtually eliminated. There is great hope in this seemingly hopeless situation.
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