13 Sexual Risk Reduction among Married Women and Men in Urban India: An Anthropological Intervention
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چکیده
Worldwide, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS is currently estimated at 33.2 million (UNAIDS 2007). In the early stages of the epidemic, the disease primarily affected men (Mann, Tarantola, and Netter 1992), but this proportion quickly changed, so that women manifested the most rapid increase in global infection rates (Vuylsteke, Sunkutu, and Laga 1996). In sub-Saharan Africa, there has been a dramatic shift in gender ratios over the past decade, with HIV-positive women now outnumbering men (1.3 to 1; UNAIDS 2004a).
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