DESIRE Society is a non-profit voluntary organization established in the year of 2004 and registered in year 2005 under Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001 (Act no 35 or, 2001) in Hyderabad. Now the Organization is functioning in India covering with Four states, i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Maharastra with several activities in the field of HIV/AIDS, keeping an objective of health development and well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA).
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is into its third decade. Over 5 million people in India are currently infected with HIV. This accounts for nearly 10% of the global HIV burden and the highest in the World after South Africa. According to UNAIDS, every 7 out of 1000 adults in India are HIV positive. According to Health Ministry of India, they are about 70,000 children under 15 years age are infected with HIV in India nearly 21000 new infections occurring every year.
Swathi: a re-born girl Swathi is 3 year old and is infected with HIV virus from her mother. Her father died of AIDS. She was just 3 kgs of weight, mother lost hope on her daughter. After admitted in DESIRE Society she is been treated her opportunistic infections, provided ARV (Antiretroviral) treatment and nutrition on time. Now Swathi gained weight up to 11 kgs from 3 kgs. Now she is playing with her fellow in-mates, after all, Swathi is “smiling with full of heart like just born baby.”
This is just only one story of some thousands of children suffering with HIV in India and who need your kind hearted support.
