Background
Jahnabi Goswami grew up in Kampur, Nagaon. Her father Hiranya Goswami was killed by ULFA militants in 1990.
Jahnabi Goswami grew up in Kampur, Nagaon. Her father Hiranya Goswami was killed by ULFA militants in 1990.
She is the first woman in the Northeast to declare her Human Immunodeficiency Virus status. Her husband died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in April, 1996. Her husband had Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome before marriage but this fact was concealed from Jahnabi.
Kasturi, who also had been infected, died in 1998 at the age of two.