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July 2002 
Vol 14, No 5 (C)

INDIA

EPIDEMIC OF ABUSE:
POLICE HARASSMENT OF HIV/AIDS OUTREACH WORKERS IN INDIA
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Dedication

I. SUMMARY 

II. RECOMMENDATIONS 

III. METHODS 

IV. BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS IN INDIA 

V. ABUSES AGAINST HIV/AIDS OUTREACH WORKERS 

VI. GOVERNMENT RESPONSE 

VII. INTERNATIONAL LAW 

VIII. CONCLUSION 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

DEDICATION

During the writing of this report, Ashok Pillai, president of the Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Chennai, died on April 19, 2002, at the age of thirty-one, one month after he graciously received a Human Rights Watch team in his office and helped us to understand the challenges faced by persons with AIDS in India. Ashok Pillai was an inspiring defender of the human rights of persons infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. His life was an example of one of his principal messages, that HIV/AIDS does not cause people to "turn into skeletons" and be written off. In the eleven years since his infection, in various forums in India and around the world, Ashok Pillai courageously raised attention to the indignity and human rights abuses suffered by people with HIV/AIDS and those around them. This report is dedicated to his memory.
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