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

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. The book contains three main an overview describing the HIV epidemic in India and the 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.