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Volume 11 Supplement 6
Edited by Lalit Dandona and Eric Benotsch
Publication of this supplement has been supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Research
Avahan, the India AIDS initiative began HIV prevention interventions in 2003 in Andhra Pradesh (AP) among high-risk groups including female sex workers (FSWs), to help contain the HIV epidemic. This manuscript...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S1
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative has been a partner supporting targeted interventions of high risk populations under India’s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) since 2004 in the state of Maharashtra. T...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S2
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative, a large-scale HIV prevention program, using peer-mediated approaches and STI services, was implemented for high-risk groups for HIV in six states in India. This paper describ...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S3
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
Studies have demonstrated the significance of commercial sex work in the ongoing transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in India. Clients of female sex workers (FSWs) are thought ...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S4
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
With the evolution of Health Belief Model, risk perception has been identified as one of several core components of public health interventions. While female sex workers (FSWs) in India continue to be at most ...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S5
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
Recent studies of male migrants in India indicate that those who are infected with HIV are spreading the epidemic from high risk populations in high prevalence areas to populations in low prevalence areas. In ...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S6
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Research
Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative, delivers HIV prevention services to high-risk populations at scale. Although the broad costs of such HIV interventions are known, to-date there has been little data available...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S7
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
The Avahan Initiative, a large-scale HIV preventive intervention targeted to high-risk populations including female sex workers (FSWs), was initiated in 2003 in six high-prevalence states in India, including Karn...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S8
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
In the Northeast Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland there has been an ongoing HIV epidemic among injecting drug users (IDUs) since the mid-1990s. Project ORCHID is an Avahan-funded HIV prevention project th...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S9
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative, implemented a large HIV prevention programme across six high HIV prevalence states amongst high risk groups consisting of female sex workers, high risk men who have sex with ...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S10
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
Although female sex workers (FSWs) report high levels of condom use with commercial sex clients, particularly after targeted HIV preventive interventions have been implemented, condom use is often low with non...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S11
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Research
As communities face serious pressures on traditional values, such as those posed by HIV infection, cultural inertia may result, whereby existing trends towards more liberalized views of sexuality are stalled. ...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S12
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Research
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S13
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Research
Condoms are effective in preventing the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, when properly used. However, recent data from surveys of female sex workers (FSWs) in Karnataka in south I...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S14
Published on: 29 December 2011
Research
Using data from two rounds of a cross-sectional, national-level survey of long-distance truck drivers, this paper examines the extent and trend of sexual risk behavior, prevalence of STI/HIV, and the linkage b...
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S15
Published on: 29 December 2011
Editorial
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):I1
Published on: 29 December 2011
Commentary
BMC Public Health 2011 11(Suppl 6):S16
Published on: 29 December 2011
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