About the Book: Womens Vulnerability To Hiv/Aids
This book deals with the factors and circumstances that have added to young
womens vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in India. Besides biological, economic and
socio-cultural factors, this is primarily due to the behaviours of their
husbands/partners. The key issues emerging from the primary data collected from
five cross-cultural settings in India portray enhancing womens knowledge, their
capacity building, improving access to STI/HIV services, enhancing family as
well as community level support and creating enabling environment as the major
facilitating factors to reduce their vulnerability in the country.
The strategies thus identified need to be translated into programmes, when not
only the female-male