Welcome to DESIRE Society

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. The organization is functioning with an objective of health development and well-being of children infected and affected with HIV and AIDS in India. The main focus of the DESIRE is to provide institutional care homes for the children abandoned and orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

HIV/ AIDS : The Problem in India

In India, as elsewhere, AIDS is often seen as “someone else’s problem”- as something that affects people living on the margins of society, whose lifestyles are considered immoral. Even as it moves into the general population, the HIV pandemic is still misunderstood among the India 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.

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.

Success Story

Transforming the lives

A re-born girl-  Swathi is 3 year old and is infected with HIV virus during her birth. Her father died of AIDS and mother was on bed with AIDS condition. Swathi was literally 3 kgs of weight, mother lost hope on this baby. After admitted in DESIRE she is been treated her opportunistic infections, provided ARV (Antiretroviral) treatment and nutrition timely. Surprisingly, within 6 months baby gained weight up to 12 kgs from 3 kgs. Now she is playing with her fellow in-mates happily, after all, Swathi is “smiling with full of heart like………….. just born baby.”

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This is just one story of some thousands of children suffering with HIV/AIDS in India and who need your kind hearted support.