Begging Life

Transgender (TG) who do not do sex work, are obliged to beg to get money to live. In most cases this happens once the TG gets positive to the HIV test.
A transsexual known to be HIV-positive is no longer accepted by friends or by the Guru in the brothel as he might affect the reputation and the business. In some cases this is kept secret and they continue to practice in brothel areas, in others cases they move to other places to do sex work.
In general since they are no longer accepted by the Guru, they end up in small groups begging from shop to shop or at traffic lights or on the highway. The weak physical conditions don’t allow an HIV-positive TG to beg for more than 4-5 hours, time during which they normally earn 50-60 rupees each, that is to say less than a euro. This is obviously not enough and in order to pay for housing and medicines, they occasionally also do sex work.
It is estimated  that in Mumbai more than 20% of the transsexuals doing sex work are infected with HIV and Maharashtra, the state with Mumbai as capital, accounts for about 1/5 of all people living with HIV in India.