Photos from 29 March Information and Training Session, Tadiwala Rd.

The new and expanded DISHA team, red saris for Tadiwala Rd. and white saris for Ramtekadi, begin the information session by exhorting the assembled crowd to join them in the fight against HIV and AIDS and the stigmatization and discrimination that accompany it.


Santosh and the DISHA team out in the Tadiwala Rd. community, educating not only their audience, but also the new members of DISHA who will soon start to work in the Ramtekadi community.
Avinash delivers information to a large and diverse crowd of all ages packed into a Tadiwala Rd. community centre.


To tackle misconceptions relating to caring for an HIV positive person, the DISHA team enacts the visit of an HIV positive person to a holy person to be cured. The prescription is a glass of water with a squeezed lemon and plentiful chilli powder. In exchange for money the holy person also cautions against going to a doctor because she or he will only be interested in the patient's money and won't be able to help with HIV.