DHANGADHI: People infected with HIV in Bajura district have demanded their right to food at the Human Right Commission Regional Office, in Dhangadhi in Kailali district, on Friday.

Mina BK on of the victims said they have filed a written complaint at the Human Right Commission urging them to guarantee their right to food and live. She also said that they have brought the attention of the government about their plight.

They have also demanded that the Human Right Commission, play an active role in providing them nutritious food along with the ART therapy and social security allowances, with the government.

The victims have also requested with the government to establish CD 4 count machine in the district and guarantee their children with the right to live and education.

Meanwhile, the victims have also demanded the Human Right Commission to facilitate their demand of income generating programmes with the government.

"We have been compelled to take our medicine without nutritious food and are dying with low level of blood in the body," Jala Rawal one of the victim said to the correspondent.

Human Right Commission Regional Office Chief Deepak Jungdhoj Karki accepting their demands said would study their case and recommend it to the local level administration and to the government.

"Its their right to live and more importantly they being deprived of their right is live is genuine and commission will do its best to guarantee their rights with the government, " Karki added.

Bajura Plus, local organisation working for the HIV positive people, informed that there are around 105 infected with the virus.

Earlier, one of the victims, Amar Mahat said that they had had a delegation team to the then Health Minister Gagan Kumar Thapa about their plight.

Fiyan Nepal chief Ashok Singh said that the victims health have been deteriorating as they are compelled to take their medicines in empty stomach and their right to Food have been seriously violated.

Earlier, the Department of Children under the Health Ministry had distributed nutritious food along with the ART therapy in the district.

Laxmi Saud lamented that their health is getting weaker as the government had stopped distributing nutritious food for them.

Kul Bahadur Rawal health professional at the Barabise Health Post in the district said that the victims have been vulnerable to other infections and disease as their health is deteriorating due to poor nutrition.

It has been leaned that most the victims in the districts come from a humble background and can't afford to buy nutritious food in their own as they themselves are struggling to feed themselves on a daily basis.

So, they have demanded the government to resume the supply of nutritious food to the victims in the district.