Sunita V S Bandewar

Biographic Data

ID3603388
NAMESunita V S Bandewar
GIVEN NAMESSunita V S
FAMILY NAMEBandewar
SIGNATUREBANDEWAR S V S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity Health Network
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Considering risk contexts in explaining the paradoxical HIV increase among female sex workers in Mumbai and Thane, India

    Open AccessSunita V S Bandewar, Shalini Bharat et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    Targeted harm reduction programmes with sex workers fail when implemented in complex urban environments that favour abolition. Increased stigmatisation and dispersal of risk can no longer be considered as unexpected. Reaching the increasing proportion of sex workers who intentionally avoid HIV prevention programmes has become the main challenge. Future evaluations need to incorporate building 'dark logic' models to predict potential harms

  • Aligning Community Engagement With Traditional Authority Structures in Global Health Research

    Paulina O Tindana, Paulina Tindana et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2011Cited by: 1References: 25

    Despite the recognition of its importance, guidance on community engagement practices for researchers remains underdeveloped, and there is little empirical evidence of what makes community engagement effective in biomedical research. We chose to study the Navrongo Health Research Centre in northern Ghana because of its well-established community engagement practices and because of the opportunity it afforded to examine community engagement in a t…

  • The origins of a research community in the Majengo observational cohort study, Nairobi, Kenya

    Open AccessSunita V S Bandewar, Sunita VS Bandewar et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    Our case study identified 3 distinct phases of community engagement in the MOCS: (1) reaching out: mobilization, dialogue and education; (2) foundations of trust through relationships of care; and (3) leveraging existing social capital to form a cohort community. The findings demonstrate the importance of some of the less obvious benefits of participation in research, namely the evolving experience of community and the accompanying gains in perso…

  • Relief of oppression

    Open AccessJames V Lavery, Sunita V S Bandewar et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    The over-arching aim of relief of oppression is that, within the range of benefits negotiated over time with the local communities and organizations, an increasing proportion reflects a shared interest in improving participants' fundamental freedoms. We describe how harm reduction serves as a useful analogy for how we envision relief of oppression functioning in international research

  • Sex, gender, and health biotechnology

    Open AccessJerome Amir Singh, Sunita Bandewar et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2009

    BACKGROUND: Reproductive technologies have been extensively debated in the literature. As well, feminist economists, environmentalists, and agriculturalists have generated substantial debate and literature on gender. However, the implications for women of health biotechnologies have received relatively less attention. Surprisingly, while gender based frameworks have been proposed in the context of public health policy, practice, health research, …

  • Abortion needs of women in India

    Manisha Gupte, Sunita Bandewar et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters1997Cited by: 8

    The Indian Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act came into force in 1972, in response to the high mortality and morbidity associated with illegal abortion. However, 25 years on, both restrictions in the law and the way it is implemented through service delivery have failed to meet the abortion needs of large numbers of women. Using data from a larger qualitative study in rural Maharashtra, this paper explores women's perceptions of their rig…