Erschienen in:
01.08.2010 | Editorial Notes
Alcohol and HIV in India: A Review of Current Research and Intervention
verfasst von:
Jean J. Schensul, S. K. Singh, Kamla Gupta, Kendall Bryant, Ravi Verma
Erschienen in:
AIDS and Behavior
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Sonderheft 1/2010
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Excerpt
This supplemental of AIDS and Behavior is a collection of recent work by Indian researchers and Indo-U.S. partnerships, examining the intersection of alcohol and HIV in India. A decade ago, when some of the research reported on in these papers was in its infancy, the AIDS epidemic in India was believed to be accelerating dramatically and shifting from vulnerable high risk populations such as sex workers, truckers and injection drug users to the general population. At the time there was a great urgency to identify facilitators and routes of transmission and to find strategies that could immediately be effective in containing the AIDS epidemic and preventing its economic, social and health consequences. …