A thorough understanding of the environmental and structural factors that precipitate unsafe sexual practices is necessary for HIV/AIDS-prevention research among high-risk population groups like commercial sex workers. I examined how poverty contextualizes health behavior, including condom compliance female workers in a red light district Calcutta, India. For my did an ethnographic study conducted in-depth interviews 37 found poverty, instead serving as catalyst poor choices workers, acted...

Violence is one of the primary contextual factors that significantly raise sex workers' sexually transmitted infection risk. The current study examines how violence affects sexual health behavior among commercial female workers in a red light district Calcutta, India. which employs in-depth interviews 37 also discusses an innovative multilayered strategy devised by to combat through community mobilization drive. shows can confront system precipitates and actively engage with it mitigate...

The current article reviews the extant literature on technology’s role in service provision and advocacy for young adults who are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). looks at preferences patterns access utilization digitally mediated communication among to explore optimal IPV services mitigation strategies providing crisis counseling this demographic offering support over time. An understanding can help design best practices offer recommendations that serve needs Generation Z violence.

This article investigates the impact of COVID-19 on health and lived experiences transgender community in India. In particular, study analyses how affects lives terms their interaction with government policymaking identity negotiation, livelihoods, access to resources, availability gender transition services status mental health. The analysis shows that pandemic strategies curb spread infection have exacerbated challenges faced by India threatened survival. As disease outbreaks traditionally...

Stigma is felt, constructed, understood and negotiated differently by varied marginalized groups, including diverse groups among commercial sex workers themselves. Brothel-based in India have more visibility undergo greater social scrutiny, moral surveillance stigmatization. For the transient workers, invisibility non-identification as are strategically used to mitigate The current research conducts semi-structured interviewing of 23 brothel-based 21 around Kolkata Eastern India. results...

This article examines how participation frames health communication strategies in the Sonagachi Project. The current research, which involves a study of 37 commercial female sex workers red-light district India, investigates target audiences enunciation problems HIV/AIDS intervention projects engenders change. analyzed participatory framework an HIV/sexually transmitted infection project among addresses sociostructural constraints that affect lives workers. aims to investigate engages roles...

The current study, which expects to fill in the gap research on transgender sex workers India, examines sexual identity negotiation, risk perception and condom compliance, health screening testing behavior, contextual barriers healthcare seeking, community mobilization among this population. study was conducted red-light districts of Kolkata rural subdivisions West Bengal, Eastern India. Transgender comprise 15% workers’ populace yet they are an understudied underserved group commercial...

This paper identifies the overarching topics delineated by film Khuda Ke Liye, analyzing its different attributes, including plot, characterization, and treatment. The tries to explore how vocalizes controversial ideological debates which have received currency in Pakistani contemporary Muslim societies, yet rarely found voice popular culture production of Pakistan (Dawn, 2007, July 22). also endeavors analyze whether movie manages offer solutions such complex questions that had an impact on...

The current paper examines the utilization of community mobilization as a strategic health communication technique in an intervention to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) rates among marginalized at-risk populations such commercial female sex workers red-light district India. research documents struggles historically exploited India mitigate its marginalization through implementation multilayered strategy capacity building economic...

“Writer-director Manish Jha extrapolates from our current reality to imagine an Indian village where, due routine killing of female newborns, women have entirely been wiped out…the frustrations, fanaticism that follow in this gender-skewed is the story Matrubhoomi” (Wadhwa, 2004, http://www.countercurrents.org/gen- wadhwa 040304.htm ). Matrubhoomi, a full-length feature film Hindi, was released mid-2003. The received opening limited theaters India, and reportedly did not make good business (...

Traditionally, there have been two schools of Hindi cinema. The center stage has always occupied by Bollywood, which enthralls the Indian audiences globally with “song-and-dance extravaganzas and melodramatic stories big on family values; other was “Satyajit Ray-inspired realistic art-house films, flowered in 1970s 1980s,” “tried to create a distinct language film, but their work relegated festivals television, where it wilted wings…” (Chopra, 2005). However, particularly noticeable trend...

The article highlights the voices of commercial sex workers from Kolkata, India, as they delineate their acts resistance in face continual adversity.The narratives revolve around several themes.These include framing work and cultural surrounding profession, implications rescue rehabilitation propositions, impact violence negotiation with daily lives.The shows that even high-risk marginalized populations like can engage overcome barriers criminalization, stigmatization highly gendered sectors...