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Sellappan Nirmala

September 2, 2016 in Modern Worthies

Sellappan Nirmala

The Woman Who Discovered India's First HIV Cases

In 1985, India widely considered AIDS to be a disease of Western debauchery which would not infect their country. Until Nirmala, as part of her dissertation, took blood samples that tested positive for HIV.

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