'Everyone stopped speaking to us': 10-year-old UP boy takes mother’s body alone for autopsy after HIV death; police arrange last rites

'Everyone stopped speaking to us': 10-year-old UP boy takes mother’s body alone for autopsy after HIV death; police arrange last rites

ETAH: A 10-year-old boy in Etah district brought his mother's body alone for a post-mortem examination on Thursday, after she died during treatment fo.

'Everyone Stopped Speaking To Us’: A 10-Year-Old’s Lonely Vigil As HIV Stigma Leaves Etah Child Alone With His Mother’s Dead Body

In a deeply distressing incident from Etah district in Uttar Pradesh, a 10-year-old boy was left entirely alone to accompany his mother’s body to a district hospital’s post-mortem facility after she died during treatment for tuberculosis and HIV. With no adult relative or neighbour willing to accompany him reportedly due to longstanding social stigma and fear associated with HIV the child sat beside her body for hours on Thursday, waiting for he…