'Lovesick': Doc About Matchmaking for HIV Patients Explores 'Human Cost of Loneliness'

Photo: Ann S. Kim and Priya Giri Desai

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When filmmakers Ann S. Kim and Priya Giri Desai stepped into Dr. Suniti Solomon’s office in April 2008, they knew they weren’t meeting any ordinary doctor.

Her story, which the pair had encountered in a news article, read like a movie’s log line: Having discovered India’s first case of HIV in 1986 and founded one of the country’s foremost AIDS clinics, the physician was now providing her patients with matchmaking services in addition to medical care. Read More