Artigo Revisado por pares

Matching love and HIV in India

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 6; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s2352-3018(19)30028-1

ISSN

2405-4704

Autores

Talha Burki,

Tópico(s)

HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Resumo

“We tried to find boys for her but everyone rejected her because she was overweight”, recalls one mother, partway through the likeable documentary Lovesick. The harsh realities of the Indian arranged marriage scene are conveyed as much by the casualness of the statement as by its content. “The men come, they want beautiful girls; I tell them ‘you are not so handsome’”, smiles microbiologist and matchmaker Suniti Solomon. “When they look at the boy, they want a boy that's highly educated, earning maybe a six figure salary.” Suniti SolomonMicrobiologist who played a key role in alerting India to the threat from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She was born on Oct 14, 1939, in Chennai, India, and died from pancreatic cancer on July 28, 2015, in Chennai, aged 76 years. Full-Text PDF

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