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@MISC{00ethnographicstudy,
author = {},
title = {ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF HIV PREVENTION IN},
year = {2000}
}
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Abstract
sex workers in two Calcutta redlight areas where a STD/HIV Intervention Project (SHIP) is being implemented. The thesis provides an in-depth study of sex workers ' lives, their concepts of sexual health and their relationship to the SHIP. This material is used to critically consider a number of key concepts currently informing HIV prevention practice, specifically, sexual health, community participation, empowerment and behaviour change. Initial chapters set the background to the study and describe the complex world of the Calcutta sex trade and sex workers ' struggle to construct a meaningful social identity. Subsequent chapters consider sex workers ' and other actors ' varying responses to, and interpretations of, the SHIP. These are related to an analysis of the process of project implementation, revealing the context-dependent, strategic, meaningful and contested nature of community, identity, participation and empowerment, and also highlighting the significance of different constructions of agency for the ways in which these concepts are expressed by different actors. The thesis goes on to examine sex workers ' own (vis a vis biomedical) perceptions of sexual health and, drawing upon the SHIP as an example, analyses
Keyphrases
sex worker sexual health ethnographic study hiv prevention contested nature calcutta sex trade subsequent chapter different actor different construction in-depth study behaviour change complex world key concept meaningful social identity project implementation initial chapter community participation std hiv intervention project hiv prevention practice
