Rani Jayakodi, aged 25, is an outreach worker for Seva Nilayam, an NGO in Tamil Nadu, India, supported by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. Rani left school at 15 and had an arranged marriage at 17.

"When my husband first fell ill he went to a private hospital. After that we used condoms for some time. I thought this was because he had a sexually transmitted disease, I didn't know about HIV."