Puja Awasthi
Puja Awasthi is a journalist with India's The Sunday Indian. This article is part of a series from alumni of a Thomson Reuters Foundation HIV/AIDS reporting course held in Bangkok in November 2008. Any opinions are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
INDIA: Women taught to talk about AIDS
Jyoti Tiwari is a determined young woman on a mission to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in India's most populous state, where school teachers regularly burn textbooks containing any reference to teenage sexuality. Tiwari is an assistant teacher in a programme to train young women to spread the word about AIDS among the most deprived and backward communities in Uttar Pradesh, an intensely patriarchal state of over 16 million people. ...
