HIV Couldn't Beat Her Business Morale

Bangalore: HIV Aids have been a long time ailing health issue in Indian society. It is estimated that in India around 2.4 million people are living with AIDS. While most people have wrong conceptions about HIV, people suffering from the disease have to face social stigma, economic hardship and ill health.

But there have always been exceptional examples and such an example is 29 year old Krishna Savitha of Hyderabad. Among hundreds of women who are HIV positive and are claiming back their rights to a life of self-reliance and dignity, Krishna Savitha has inspired many women by setting an model of being a self sufficient business entrepreneur.

Being an HIV positive Krishna had to face a lot of social ostracism. Krishna Savitha was married at the age of fourteen to a man twice her age, and widowed at twenty with two toddlers. Her husband was a landless, migrant daily wager, had AIDS, which Savitha learned only after his death and also came to know that she was infected by the same.

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