For Migrant Workers With HIV, Staying on Treatment Takes More Than Just Medicine

For Migrant Workers With HIV, Staying on Treatment Takes More Than Just Medicine

Jyotesh* knows the cost of a missed dose.When he travelled from Surat back to his village in Odisha’s Ganjam district five years ago for some work, he carried a month’s stock of his daily HIV medicines. But the visit stretched longer than expected. The medicines ran out.At the time, he did not think much of it. But when he returned to Surat three months later, where he worked in the textile industry, filling and replacing thread bobbins for weav…