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Villagers shun children of Indian AIDS victims
Five children have been thrown out of their homes and are living by the graves of their parents who died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in a northern Indian village
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ive children have been thrown out of their homes and areliving by the graves of their parents who died of acquired immune deficiencysyndrome in a northern Indian village.
District administrator Vidya Bhushan says they were ostracized three months ago by the villagers who feared that the four brothers and one sister, between the ages of 7 and 17, were infected with the HIV virus from their parents.
They have been living under a tattered tarpaulin with two broken beds in the graveyard on the outskirts of Mauwa, a village in Uttar Pradesh state, Nishar Bano, one of the children, told Eenadu, Hindi television news channel Friday. Bhushan said authorities will provide them with housing and organize medical checks-up to allay the fears of the villagers
