雅思考试|阅读提升：印度两个HIV携带者结婚

AHMEDABAD, India - Indian matchmakers are helping^{1 HIV/ 人工智能DS sufferers find partners, advertising2 in the matrimonial columns of weekend newspapers and arranging weddings.}

Matchmakers write the ads, keep the identities of would-be brides and grooms^{4 secret and arrange counseling for couples facing the rest of their lives together with a killer5 disease, says H. Raj, who runs a wedding bureau in the commercial capital of Gujarat state, Ahmedabad.}

It was tough taking care of my young daughter after I lost my husband from 人工智能DS, says a 35-year-old kindergarten teacher.Because of my financial and emotional needs, I wanted to find a partner ... who was HIV positive like me. For us, marriage is about accepting the truth and living well, even with a killer disease.

She married a man she found through the matrimonial columns, in a simple ceremony at her parents home. Most marriages in India are still arranged, though generally with the consent of the bride and groom^{3, and newspapers are full of such ads.}

But Indias five million HIV/人工智能DS sufferers face vicious prejudice. They are sacked from their jobs, shunned^{6 by their families, friends and neighbors, thrown out of hospital beds and sometimes denied treatment.}

And HIV/人工智能DS widows face a double stigma^{7 in a country where some women withdraw from daily life when their husbands die.}