India's HIV/Aids law may bring relief to a million people

The Indian parliament has recently approved a new law to protect the human rights of people living with HIV/Aids, but health advocates are complaining that it fails to address treatment concerns. India’s health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda hailed the bill, which passed in April, as ‘historic’. Nadda said it would be a ‘criminal offence’ to discriminate against people living with HIV/Aids. The HIV/Aids bill has been in the making for well over a decade, and has been wending its way through the Indian parliament for the past three years.