Titled “HIV and mental health”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, discusses the original article, “Psychiatric morbidities in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients” by Adya Shanker Srivastava, Raj Kumar, Madhukar Rai, Maheshwar Nath Tripathi, Jai Singh Yadav, and Achyut Kumar Pandey, and published in the current issue (July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.