Documenting Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative
The Population Council is synthesizing and analyzing the wealth of data collected by Avahan to gain insight that will guide future initiatives for HIV prevention in India and other countries with similar concentrated epidemics.
In 2003, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched Avahan, an initiative to reduce the spread of HIV in India by expanding access to HIV prevention programs in six states of India that have high infection rates.
Avahan is serving those most vulnerable to HIV infection, including 220,000 female sex workers, 80,000 men who have sex with men and transgendered people, 18,000 injecting drug users, and approximately 5 million truckers and clients of sex workers who are at risk of contracting HIV. The scale of this operation and the diversity of the intervention environment make Avahan a “live laboratory” of learning for HIV prevention. Since its start, a total of 24 distinguished organizations/universities, including the Population Council, have been involved in program implementation, monitoring, evaluation, advocacy, and knowledge-building.
During this period, extensive data have been collected by Avahan’s partners. This project aims to synthesize and analyze this wealth of data to draw out programmatic findings that can be used to guide future initiatives for HIV prevention in India and other countries with similar concentrated epidemics.
Offsite link: IndiaHIV: A Knowledge Sharing Portal
Male migrants' non-spousal sexual partnerships in the place of origin: An in-depth investigation in two rural settings of India (abstract) (HTML)
Ganju,Deepika; Mahapatra,Bidhubhusan; Saggurti,Niranjan
Culture, Health and Sexuality Published online ahead of print, 16 January
Publication date: 2013
Anal sex and associated HIV-related sexual risk factors among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India (abstract) (HTML)
Patra,Rajesh Kumar; Mahapatra,Bidhubhusan; Kovvali,Dolly; Proddutoor,Laxminarayana; Saggurti,Niranjan
Sexual Health 9: 430-437
Publication date: 2012
Changing epidemiology of HIV in Mumbai: An application of the Asian epidemic model (abstract) (PDF)
Mishra,Ram Manohar; Dube,Madhulika; Sahu,Damodar; Saggurti,Niranjan; Pandey,Arvind
Global Journal of Health Science 4(5): 100-112
Publication date: 2012
HIV risk behaviors among female sex workers using cell phone for client solicitation in India (abstract) (HTML)
Mahapatra,Bidhubhusan; Saggurti,Niranjan; Halli,Shiva S.; Jain,Anrudh K.
Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research S1: 014-
Publication date: 2012
How effective is community mobilisation in HIV prevention among highly diverse sex workers in urban settings? The Aastha intervention experience in Mumbai and Thane districts, India (abstract) (PDF)
Singh Gaikwad,Sanjeev; Bhende,Amrita; Nidhi,Gaurav; Saggurti,Niranjan; Ranebennur,Virupax
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 66(suppl 2): ii69-ii77
Publication date: 2012
Impact of an HIV prevention intervention on condom use among long distance truckers in India (abstract) (HTML)
Juneja,Sachin; Tirumalasetti,Vasudha Rao; Mishra,Ram Manohar; Sethu,Shekhar; Singh,Indra Ramayash
AIDS and Behavior Published online ahead of print, 25 September
Publication date: 2012
Navigating the swampy lowland: A framework for evaluating the effect of community mobilisation in female sex workers in Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative (abstract) (PDF)
Galavotti,Christine; Wheeler,Tisha; Sebert Kuhlmann,Anne; Saggurti,Niranjan; Narayanan,Pradeep; Kiran,Usha; Dallabetta,Gina
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 66(suppl 2): ii9-ii15
Publication date: 2012
The association between adolescent entry into the trucking industry and risk of HIV among long-distance truck drivers in India (abstract) (HTML)
Mishra,Ram Manohar; Dube,Madhulika; Saggurti,Niranjan; Pandey,Arvind; Mahapatra,Bidhubhusan; Ramesh,Sowmya
HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care 4: 141-148
Publication date: 2012
Understanding the association between injecting and sexual risk behaviors of injecting drug users in Manipur and Nagaland, India (abstract) (HTML)
Suoho,Khrieketou; Humtsoe,Chumben; Saggurti,Niranjan; Sabarwal,Shrutika; Mahapatra,Bidhubhusan; Kermode,Michelle
Harm Reduction Journal 9: 40-
Publication date: 2012
Project Stats
Location: India
Program(s):
HIV and AIDS
Topic(s):
HIV prevention
Injecting drug users
Men who have sex with men
Mobile populations
Sex workers
Duration: 1/2009 - 1/2014
Population Council researchers:
Niranjan Saggurti
Non-Council collaborators:
Equity in Gender and Health Trust, within St. John's Research Institute
Institute of Economic Growth, affiliated with Delhi University
National AIDS Research Institute
National Institute of Medical Statistics
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Donors:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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