Sexuality in the Time of AIDS: Contemporary Perspectives from Communities in India

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This volume presents and reviews a wide range of recent research on sexuality and sexual behaviours in India to better understand the patterns of risk among different sections of the Indian populace. Participants in India's HIV/AIDS campaign now recognize that the epidemic has great complexities which have to be understood in its entirety in order to combat it. This book contains three main components: an overview describing the HIV epidemic in India andthe public and the non-governmental approaches; perspectives from communities and population sectors on premarital, marital and extra marital sexuality and the risk of transmission; and, the lessons learnt in terms of research methodology and the development of new approaches to HIV/AIDS.