Madurai: A primary school here has barred entry to a 13-year-old student after discovering that he was HIV positive.
The incident came to light recently when the boy’s mother went to Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society Centre seeking help. She said her son was not getting equal consideration like other students in the school as he was found to be HIV positive, according to B V Babu, president of NGO Madurai Network of Positive People. According to the boy’s mother blood reports revealed that she had HIV virus. She had been on medication ever since. But her husband and elder daughter and youngest son were not HIV positive. She said she had no clue as to how she contracted the virus. The boy was tested HIV positive last year. (PTI)
