Yesu Babu of Vambay Colony in Vijayawada is 12. He has lost both
his parents to AIDS. His younger brother is positive. There are
almost 2 million AIDS orphans like him in India. But the
national and global response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in India has
virtually ignored children, reports Shelley Seale Imagine you
are a 12-year-old boy. You live in India, on the outskirts of a
town called Vijayawada. Your name is Yesu Babu. Your home is a
tiny two-room concrete block, approximately 200 square feet, in
a slum known as the Vambay Colony. Imagine that you share this
small home with your grandmother, Durgamma, and your 9-year-old
brother. You live with your grandmother because your parents
died of AIDS – first your father, who brought the infection
home, in 2001; then your mother in 2004. There was no one left
to take care of you and your brother except your elderly
grandmother, who never expected to be raising two more children
at this age. Soon you learn that although you are HIV-negative,
your young brother is HI