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Sunday, 28 July 2013
Interventions

Implications of migration on the health of communities

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Diseases such as HIV/AIDS and the current swine flu pandemic have highlighted the connection between the large scale movement of people and health. With more than 200 million migrants in the world, migration - internal and across borders - is here to stay. It thus makes sense for all countries to put a migrant-friendly health system in place, argues Manjima Bhattacharjya

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Bridging the education gap

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HIV affected and infected children in Manipur are benefiting from a remarkable initiative that ensures they can afford to stay in school. Donations by small business firms and philanthropic individuals pay for school fees, books, uniforms, shoes, etc, channelled through the Manipur Network of Positive People (MNP+), reports Chitra Ahanthem

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Sexuality, politics and HIV

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The complex of funding, widespread attention, and advocacy around HIV has enabled queer individuals to talk openly about their sexual desires and created space for more political subversion and critiques of sexuality. At the same time, HIV activism has limited the discussion around sexual desire by focusing on disease, “risk” groups, and epidemiology, writes Padma Govindan

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In this powerloom town, knowledge about HIV is power

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More than 40 lakh people are dependent directly or indirectly on the powerloom industry in the city of Bhiwandi. Yet literacy levels and healthcare are of the poorest quality. Pankajkumar Bedi tells the story of one NGO that battled ignorance and religious taboos to raise AIDS awareness levels and provide a much-needed service

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Back on the streets, but with a new mission

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A former sex worker returns to the streets of Kochi, but this time for a worthy cause – to fight what state health authorities admit is a gradually growing epidemic in the state, and to clear up some popular misconceptions about women sex workers. Anosh Malekar hears her story

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Popularising harm reduction strategies

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Drug users are the most neglected of those groups considered at high risk of contracting and transmitting HIV/AIDS. Freny Manecksha spends time at one centre in Mumbai that offers injecting drug users exchange needle programmes, and other harm reduction facilities

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Helping children help themselves

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With 250,000 children living with HIV/AIDS and 60,000 babies born every year with the virus, looking after such children and teaching them how to cope is an urgent requirement of any AIDS intervention. Freny Manecksha finds out how Project CHILD is handling this issue in its community-based programmes in and around Mumbai

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Small town women find new freedom with female condoms

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Tarannum Manjul finds that a programme to get women to use the female condom in rural Uttar Pradesh is proving a success with women because it gives them more control over their lives

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HIV/AIDS in Manipur: The need to focus on women

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In a state with the highest concentration of HIV/AIDS in India, a majority of them injecting drug users (IDUs), interventions have focused on IDUs but have neglected their spouses, sexual partners and children, points out Chitra Ahanthem

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HIV, sexuality and identity in India

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There has been a legitimate emergence of sexual minorities in India over the last decade. But even as transsexuals or sex workers exult in the opportunity to be heard and seen in mainstream society, we must realise that this is just one small evolutionary step towards raising the self-esteem of marginalised groups, says Maya Indira Ganesh

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