Another problem is that despite being HIV positive, most of them insist on a match from their own caste.
"The caste consideration is strong also because many of them do not reveal their HIV status to their families, who keep putting pressure on them to get married," he says.
Women with children are not readily preferred, more so if they have daughters.
Changing lives
"My role is that of a facilitator," Mr Valiv says. "People connect through the website or during a matrimonial meeting, and then interact directly."
This makes it difficult for him to say the exact number of marriages he has helped arrange.
But based on the thank you messages and updates on the website, he believes that number to be between 200 and 400, some involving Indians living in Singapore, United Kingdom, Germany and elsewhere.
His biggest success perhaps was in 2010 when 22 people got married in one day at a meeting in Pune.
One of them was Lata, a health worker.
She was devastated when she lost her first husband to HIV in 2002. She too was diagnosed as HIV positive when she was only 26. Although her son Ravi, then a little over a year old, was HIV negative, she felt broken.
Lata brought Ravi to the meeting and there they met Vijay. A year older than her, Vijay had lost his wife to HIV and had himself been living with the virus for over 12 years.
They now have a two-year-old son Rishi, who too is HIV negative. "Our sons have made our lives worth living," says an emotional Lata.
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