INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES ISSN:2320‐3137 346 www.earthjournals.org Volume 2 Issue 3 2013 ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS : A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY IN A COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE IN CHENNAI, SOUTH INDIA Ganesh Shanmugasundaram Anusuya* 1 , PM Udayashankar 2 , Valan A S 3 , PJ Parameaswari 4 ,Mahalakshmy T 5 ,Sudharsanam MB 6 , Krishnakumar J 7 1 Assistant Professor, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Community Medicine Department, Chennai, India 2 Professor & HOD, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Community Medicine Department, Chennai, India 3 Chief Fellow, International Training and Education Center on HIV, Chennai, India 4 Assistant Professor - Biostatistics , Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India 5 Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India. 6 Assistant Professor, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Community Medicine Department Chennai, India 7 Professor, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Community Medicine Department, Chennai, India Institution: Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital , Chromepet, Chennai, India Email of the Principal Investigator: drgany2007@rediffmail.com Note: The abstract was selected for Oral presentation and presented in 23 rd Annual Conference of Karnataka Association of Community Health (KACH Conference) held in Manipal Kasturba Medical College from 21/10/11 to 22/10/11 .