Persuading, protesting and exchanging favours: Strategies used by Indian sex workers to win local support for their HIV prevention programmes

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 1670-1678

  Cornish, Flora ^a   Shukla, Anuprita ^a   Banerji, Riddhi ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b West Bengal State University   (India)

Author keywords

community mobilisation; HIV prevention; India; partnerships; sex workers; social capital

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; FIELD WORK; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; ILLEGITIMACY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; POLICE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; POLICE; POLITICS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROSTITUTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 78650381943     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: 13600451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2010.521545     Document Type: Article

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