By Pam O'Connor, Jaya Earnest
This e-book provides the result of a learn that tested the a number of layers of stigma and discrimination skilled by way of ladies contaminated and tormented by HIV/AIDS in a low socio-economic sector of Mumbai, India. utilizing exploratory qualitative equipment and underpinned through the psychosocial framework and gendered views the research makes an attempt to symbolize the voicesof affected and contaminated girls. The ebook first specializes in a world review of HIV,presents information at the Indian context and offers a synthesis of HIV with regards to stigma, discrimination and gender. the second one a part of the e-book probes the intensity of impression on women's lives utilizing the lenses of gender, financial prestige, the surroundings and actual healthiness. The framework used to be extra converted and prolonged to incorporate threats published through and strengths indentified in contaminated and affected ladies. The research published that suggestions to deal with stigma and discrimination have to handle the social, cultural, non secular and systemic obstacles to altering attitudes. The e-book portrays the resilience of every woman's spirit and the original capability of the ladies to manage, to discover power, to pursue lifestyles and to take care of wish while their desires and the goals in their teenagers were shattered via HIV/AIDS.
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Collaboration of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Indian Railways and NGOs has resulted in the use of peer counsellors working towards a gender-sensitive approach on HIV/AIDS care and prevention. To date, peer counsellors have reached 70,000 people in the five entry points of the railway communityand a Railway Women’s Empowerment and AIDS Prevention Society (REAPS) has been set up. Gender and HIV education has been introduced into all the Indian Railway Schools, from the ninth grade, encouraging young people to question gender stereotypes, and for women to negotiate safer sex and promote male sexual responsibility (Chatterjee, 2004).
4 crore (234 million) pieces of condoms till January 2010. Care, Support and Treatment: The programme provides comprehensive management of PLWHA with respect to prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections, Antiretroviral therapy (ART), psychosocial support, home-based care, positive prevention and impact mitigation. The free ART programme for PLHA has been scaled up to 239 centres - 300,743 patients are being provided free ART as of January, 2010, including 18,889 children. The Department of AIDS Control is in the process of implementing the “Smart Card” Project.
These low risk goups are infected by their regular partner who in turn has been infected through commercial sex (National Centre for HIV/ AIDS, Dermatology and STIs, 2004). 12 OVERVIEW OF HIV/AIDS GLOBALLY AND IN INDIA HIV is increasingly affecting people traditionally considered to be at lower risk of infection especially married women. About 43% of new infections in 2005 were among women, who were infected by husbands or partners who had unprotected paid sex with commercial sex workers or had used contaminated injecting equipment.
