Jahnabi Goswami
Indian activist
Jahnabi Goswami (born 16 September 1976) is an Indian HIV/AIDS activist from Assam. She is the first woman in the Northeast to declare her HIV status. She is the founder and current treasurer of Assam Network of Positive People (ANPP) and the current president of the Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+), the first woman to hold the position.
Early life
Jahnabi Goswami grew up in Kampur, Nagaon. Her father Hiranya Goswami was killed by ULFA militants in 1990. She was married off to a wealthy businessman at the age of 17 in the winter of 1994. Her husband died of AIDS in April 1996. Her husband had AIDS before marriage but this fact was concealed from Jahnabi. After the death of her husband, she was harassed, discriminated against and thrown out of her in-laws house and was not allowed to take her belongings and her daughter Kasturi with her. She got her belongings back and the custody of her daughter only after the intervention of the court and the police.
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