Hey guys,
Recently, I came across real life story of a 25-year-old who commited suicide. A HIV+ve, he was a gay and used to advise people on safe sex. Here is the story, but there is more to it than this
Life takes a negative turn for this HIV +ve
A homosexual, he advised many against unsafe sex
LIFE HAD never been kind to Devinder alias Kashish. But he had always been a fighter till one day he decided to end it all. Being an orphan at an age of three with a younger sister to look after, he survived the harsh realities of life and advised others on how to keep it going.Diagnosed to be HIV +ve 10 months ago, Devinder wanted to fight the disease too and started giving counselling on safe sex. But it was his male-having-sex-with-male (MSM) status that apparently proved to be the last nail in the coffin. Devinder’s body was found on the railway track near the Vikas Nagar railway crossing on Wednesday night after he was ran over by 303 New Delhi-Kalka train. Having been brought up in Bal Niketan, the 25-year-old was staying in Mauli Jagran village for quite a while as a tenant. Devinder is said to be having a good circle of MSM friends due to which the Family Planning Association of India gave him the job of a peer educator on AIDS. “We always need people like him who can motivate others in such high-risk groups. And his success rate had been excellent. After being diagnosed with HIV, it became more important for him to help save others,” said Ashwani Kumar, the project head under whom Devinder worked.However, it was his recent disclosure to his now married sister that apparently did not gone well. “He had to tell her that he acquired the HIV positive status being a MSM. After this, he became more depressed. Though nothing can be said with certainty,” Kumar said. Amit Joshi of Ambala, a close friend of Devinder, said during his last talk with him, Devinder talked about how it had difficult for him to survive. “I am not sure why he said that. It might be due to the physical sufferings he had to undergo being affected by HIV virus,” Joshi said. Manmohan Sharma of the Kiran helpline for HIV affected, with whom Devinder had been associated for a while, said he was suffering from acute diarrhoea. “His CD4 count was more than 200 per cubic millimetre of blood due to which Devinder was denied the anti-retroviral therapy by the PGI. It’s due to guidelines of the National AIDS Control Society that HIV positive persons continue to suffer if they have the CD4 count over 200. He was in the drop-in centre at Khuda Ali Sher for a week, but that did not help due to lack of social support,” he added.
