Dedication

I. SUMMARY 

II. RECOMMENDATIONS  To the Government of India 
To the National AIDS Control Organisation 
To the World Bank, United Nations agencies and bilateral donors supporting HIV/AIDS programs in India III. METHODS 

IV. BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS IN INDIA 

V. ABUSES AGAINST HIV/AIDS OUTREACH WORKERS  Human rights abuses linked to HIV/AIDS outreach to women in prostitution 
Human rights abuses linked to HIV/AIDS outreach to men who have sex with men 
Human rights abuses linked to HIV/AIDS outreach to male sex workers  VI. GOVERNMENT RESPONSE 

VII. INTERNATIONAL LAW 

VIII. CONCLUSION 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

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.