AIDS victim’s death betrays people’s misconceptions

KENDRAPARA, Feb. 2. — Superstition and stigma attached to AIDS have unfolded in the most obnoxious manner in a remote village in the district after the death of an HIV-infected person three days back.

The people were so fearful that they had prevented the police from cremating the body of the patient fearing that the smoke that will billow from the pyre would spread the virus. ...