Five HIV-positive couples have tied the nuptial knot at a centre in Maharashtra's Latur district where they grew up after they were either abandoned or lost their parents to the infection.

The couples entered wedlock on April 22 at Hasegaon village in Latur where a social worker started a centre called 'Happy Indian Village' under a project named 'Sevalay' to take care of one child infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.