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The women are mostly engaged in the unorganised sector as labourers. They face the problems of job insecurity and exploitation on par with the male workers. In addition, they are subjected to wage discrimination and the nature of work assigned to them is usually drudgery in nature. They are also subjected to sexual exploitation at the work place. In the homes they are expected to do all the domestic chores. Therefore, the women with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive in lower starts of society need urgent and special attention. Moreover, the women in India are characterized by low status, low level of education, low level of health conditions and employment. They are suffering from insecurity, exploitation in addition to poverty. The paper aims at examines the Socio-Economic and Demographic Characteristics and based on primary data collected from HIV positive pregnant women attending Antiretroviral therapy (ART) Centre.