CORRECTION-INDIA-HEALTH-AIDS

Indian HIV positive patient Vimalaakshi, 37, stands while leaning onto a wall of the sequestered residential colony she lives in on the outskirts of Bangalore on November 28, 2014. Vimalaakshi, who lost her husband to the disease six year ago, is undergoing second line of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and has survived life-threatening meningitis and breast cancer. She is looked after by her 18-year-old son who is also HIV positive and earns a paltry sum of 50 rupees (less than 1 USD) per day struggling to make ends meet. According to the UN AIDS programme, India had the third-largest number of people living with HIV in the world at the end of 2013 and it accounts for more than half of all AIDS-related deaths in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2012, 140,000 people died in India because of AIDS. The Indian government has been providing free antiretroviral drugs for HIV treatment since 2004, but only 50 percent of those eligible for the treatment were getting it in 2012, according to a report by the World Health Organisation. AFP PHOTO/Manjunath KIRAN (Photo credit should read MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images)