Harbans seen through the clothesline; shying away from the camera…

Harbans’s daughter reaching for the clothes…the weather was overcast that day…

according to Harbans, if it wouldn’t be for her two (unmarried) daughters who really manage work at home, she would not have survived the brunt of the daily household work…

Harbans’s younger children playing with their friends outside the house…

Over the years, battling the ‘virus’, Harbans body has grown weak and her stamina has considerably fallen…now she gets easily exhausted and cannot do much physical work…she prepared tea for guests but before she could serve it ,she dozed off signaling the ever growing weakness in her body…

While Harbans sleeps, Rachna chats with Harbans’s youngest daughter…Rachna is a CSI employee and works in its Community Based Care & Support program. She makes regular home visits to the family and shares a great comfort level with the family and understands their needs, problems and fears…what really touches an outsider is the intimate relation she shares with the family and the sincerity and diligence with which she does her work…Dietary counseling ,ART adherence, personal hygiene ,prompt treatment for opportunistic infection ---all these issues are covered by Rachna in her regular home visits …
CSI’s home care workers are a great support to Harbans. In times when her relatives have stopped coming to her house and interacting with the family, CSI’s care workers provide the necessary psychosocial support…
With all this support Harbans has been able to cope with life with HIV and says, “Life Must go On…”
(CSI is working closely with 108 men and women living with HIV/AIDS providing them psychosocial support, clinical facilities,nutrition supplements and training in self care issues so as to improve their quality of life and help them cope with HIV infection.)