Situation analysis of AIDS patients and their children in Goa city: 

   Goa is the place of occupants of migrating people from different parts of the county. In most of the families the male left the family in the native village and engage in the casual labors in the private sectors for survival. These workers indulge in sex activities with commercial sex workers and become high risk of HIV /AIDS. Children born from this group are almost HIV positive. Denial of the problems experienced by people with HIV/AIDS is caused by stigma, fear, rejection and persecution. These factors prevent a person living with HIV from relating to their parents, friends and families. As a result many abandon their children in the streets. In slums it is alarming factor that among the high risk groups of AIDS carries are street children. Risky sexual behavior and disinformation are the reasons for the pandemic. It is estimated that 1000 to 1500 street kids (age 10-15) found in Goa slums. Every day 5 to 10 children board trains bound for all the corners of the other states and reach the stations as cleaners and beggars. Most of them indulge in unsafe sex activities, and have one or two venereal disease. One percent of HIV positive cases are children 15 years. Thus poverty makes whole communities vulnerable to AIDS by forcing men to leave their families in search of work, by leaving people hopeless enough to turn to the solace of drugs, or by making prostitution a survival strategy for women and children. HIV/ AIDS then complete the vicious circle by making the community even poorer. A look at the world population HIV prevalence tells that the epidemic has its tightest grip covers the poorest countries. And the highest concentrations of HIV/AIDS with in rich countries coincide increasingly with packets of misery and deprivation mostly in urban slums. This underlines a truth that is fundamental to the understanding of the epidemic- that poverty is at once the line of least resistance, and one of the most powerful driving forces behind the spread of HIV/AIDS.