By dr neelima atal mohanty | head communications
SARTHAK SUCCESS STORY
Sarthak, [5yr old, HIV boy child] was born to HIV positive parents in New Delhi. It is a mother to child transmission case so he turned out to be a HIV positive by birth. His mother got to know about her positive status during pregnancy. After demise of his parents, Sarthak and his brother both are staying at their relatives place for some time.
Such HIV children need special care in terms of nutritive food and medication on daily basis. Being continuously neglected by the society, children’s relatives lost hope and not able to find any place for the survival, as they are alone with two HIV children. During his relative’s continuous search for the proper care home for HIV/AIDS children, she met our Program Facilitator.
He brought Sarthak and his brother to the DESIRE Society as it is a care home for HIV/AIDS children. DESIRE Society, has pledged to give him and his siblings basic core needs. The nutritional diet is basis of our services to be given to him. He has gained weight after admission. The net result is increase in CD4 count in turn giving them chance to fight against odds of this dreadful disease. The health wise improvement shows the love and care provided to this HIV boy in Gurgaon Care Home level. We are trying to get him enrolled in formal school.
The over- all development of this child is targeted area for us.
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