The clinical enigma rendered as human portrait — case by case, the illness recedes and the person stays.
The book
Infectious Intimacies
Stories from the Frontlines of HIV, Humanity, and Hope
A serious adult nonfiction account of sexuality, HIV/AIDS, stigma, field medicine, public-health language, survival, and compassion through the stories witnessed by Dr. Ishwar Gilada.
Investigative attention turned on a city's most guarded districts, institutions, and unspoken arrangements.
Each chapter carries the pull of a record being opened — not for shock, but because the truth was withheld for so long.
What it is
Adult narrative nonfiction.
These stories bring sexuality, public health, law, stigma, communication, clinical care, and human dignity into one candid record.
What it is not
Not a medical consultation.
The book is for reflection and discussion. It does not replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or emergency care.
How to buy
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Edition details
ISBN 978-81-181010-0-0.
First Edition · Paperback · 2026 · Published by Unison Medicare and Research Centre Pvt. Ltd..
Chapter map
Stories that make public health personal.
Prologue
A family and professional doorway into the record.
Before he was a public-health witness, he was someone's father. This is the door his daughter opens.Navigating the Conversation
How doctors earn truth when shame and fear enter the room.
Denial has its own vocabulary. Reading past it — without judgment — was the first skill he had to learn.Kamathipura
Lives shaped by sex work, economics, disease, and dignity.
A short walk from Mumbai's grandest addresses sits a district the city agreed not to see. He kept showing up anyway.Beyond Desire
Compulsion, secrecy, treatment, and the limits of moral judgement.
Where morality wants a verdict, medicine has to ask a harder question first.Stolen Childhoods
A direct confrontation with exploitation and institutional failure.
The hardest chapter to write is the one the system worked hardest to look away from.Voyeurism Exposed
Consent, privacy, violation, and the harms hidden behind silence.
Consent has a line. This chapter is about the people who found out exactly where.Breaking the Binary
Gender, community, public health, and social exclusion.
A community India has known for centuries and a health system that took decades to notice.Dysfunctional Bedroom
The private distress couples rarely know how to name.
A routine complaint about 'weakness' unravelled a decade of a family's unspoken history.Devadasi System
Ritual, caste, exploitation, disease risk, and outreach.
A tradition that turned lives into property, and the outreach work built to break the cycle.Breaking the Silence
The violence families hide and survivors carry.
The abuse families protect is rarely the one they admit to. This is the one they couldn't hide from a doctor.From Taboos to Textbook
The sample chapter: condoms, prisons, truck routes, law, HIV, and language.
Condoms, prisons, truck routes, and a law that turned a diagnosis into a crime. The free chapter.The Evolution of Sexuality
What changes, what refuses to change, and why education must keep learning.
Forty years of watching India's private life change in public — and what still hasn't moved an inch.Epilogue
A closing reflection on the work and the lives behind it.
The record closes the way it opened: in the voice of family, not just of medicine.Release status
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