Spread of AIDS to rural India was unknown till recently when infected truck drivers went back home and gave it to their spouses who die from "mysterious causes." Lack of adequate healthcare facilities and trained doctors in rural areas mean that the patient often dies without knowing what she is going through. There is also a social stigma attached to the infected. As if it is her fault, the woman is ostracized and banished from her married home to live with her parents. If she has siblings, the stigma passes on to them and essentially ruins the family often forcing them to migrate to cities where they live unrecognized but in abject filth. To make ends meet, parents end up selling their other children into sex trade or as casual laborers. 

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