Fight HIV, not drug users!

Описание: Manipur, a small state in the North East India, on the border with Myanmar, with a population of 2.8 million, has an estimated 40,855 people infected with HIV, according to a 2012 report from the Manipur State AIDS Control Society. According to some independent estimates, there are more than 75,000 PWUD in Manipur. In some parts of Manipur, 92% of injecting drug-users are co infected with HIV and Hepatitis-C. The HIV prevalence rate among people who use drugs in Manipur is one of the highest in the world.

The movie is about severe rights violations committed against people who use drugs in Manipur. This advocacy film was produced to show the prevailing situation faced by people who use drugs. Film is one of the most powerful media to show the real situations we face in our day-to-day life, and the best option for reaching out to the masses. We believe that there is no other better option of raising awareness of the rights violations committed against people who use drugs, than by using the words of drug users themselves. In this movie, people who use drugs talk honestly and bravely about how police round them up in street raids, and publicise their personal data in newspapers, how they extort all the money they have, how they beat them up or shoot them, and how local clubs and the mob carry out reprisals against them and their houses.