About the Book

This book deals with the factors and circumstances that have added to young women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in India. Besides biological, economic and socio-cultural factors, this is primarily due to the behaviours of their husbands/partners. The key issues emerging from the primary data collected from five cross-cultural settings in India portray enhancing women’s knowledge, their capacity building, improving access to STI/HIV services, enhancing family as well as community level support and creating enabling environment as the major facilitating factors to reduce their vulnerability in the country. The strategies thus identified need to be translated into programmes, when not only the female-male ratio of HIV infection is increasing, but nearly half of the new HIV infections are taking place among people below age 25. Major findings highlighted in the book will be useful for researchers, policy makers as well as other programme personnel working in South Asian countries on gender and HIV/AIDS issues.

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Contents

1. Introduction

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About the Author / Editor

S.K. Singh is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Demography and Statistics, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. During his academic career spanning over 20 years, Professor Singh has published more than one hundred research papers in national and international journals of repute. Besides, he has also completed more than two dozen research projects with a number of international agencies/organizations producing extremely useful data for evidence-based decision-making in the country. Hemkhothang Lhungdim obtained M.A, M. Phil, and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Currently he is Professor and Head, Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. Dr. Lhungdim has vast teaching, research/survey experiences and guides doctoral students. He received training in population/health at Cairo Demographic Centre, Egypt; East-West Center, Honolulu, USA; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London; and The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. K.C. Das obtained his Masters, M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Population Study from the IIPS, Mumbai, he is currently working as Professor in the Department of Migration and Urban Studies. Professor Das has published more than sixty research papers and monographs. He has visited and presented research papers in various countries like USA, Canada, Malta, China, Thailand, Morocco and South Korea. He was also a visiting research faculty at the Office of the Population Research, Princeton University, USA.

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