“When will you weigh my girl next?” asks Shobhna Mahaur, a resident of Hasanpur Haveli village in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh. Baby Kavita was born to her and Shankar after 10 years of marriage. A proud and informed mother, she was anxious about her child’s nutrition...

Mahesh [name changed] still remembers that day.  It was in 2005 that doctors told him he was HIV positive.  His heart skipped a beat and the ground seemed to slip away right beneath him.  His first thought was of family – his wife and daughter. Shakambari was a year...

Residents of Kumhari town in Chhattisgarh have long faced the problem of haphazard dumping of solid waste in their neighbourhood. Piles of trash and garbage used to be scattered around the town as proof of an inefficient waste-collection and disposal system leading to...

“Both my son and daughter-in-law died young because of HIV, leaving behind their two daughters who are positive as well. I have to be on a constant vigil about their CD4 count so that they do not have to depend on ART”, says Suhasini Sule (name changed). “Thankfully,...

Pari, as everyone fondly calls her is a little bundle of joy born to Vishnu and Lalita.  She was their sixth child and was born extremely underweight.  At just 1.8 kilograms, she was indeed a high-risk baby.  Adding to the family woes, Lalita soon became weak and...