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Parinita Bhattacharjee

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ID78426
NAMEParinita Bhattacharjee
GIVEN NAMESParinita
FAMILY NAMEBhattacharjee
SIGNATUREBHATTACHARJEE P
AFFILIATIONSKarnataka Health Promotion Trust
ORCID0000-0003-3277-7693
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2
  • Integrating Anogenital Health Care Into HIV Programs for Queer Men in Kenya: A Project Ethnography of Lateralizing Community-Led Health Service Delivery

    Open Access•Lisa Lazarus, Matthew Thomann et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2025•References: 3

    Amid shifting political and funding landscapes for HIV prevention, how do we recognize the localized knowledges and skills accumulated at the grassroots, and which undergird community-led health service delivery for "key populations"? Lateralization advances an alternative implementation approach for a new generation of HIV programs that not only meets the global health policy direction of "integrative health" but also centres community insights …

  • Toward improving anal health care among GBMSM in Kenya: Lessons from a patient’s illness, treatment and recovery journey

    Open Access•Samuel Anyula Gorigo, Collins J Owek et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2024

    We aimed to illuminate the challenges of treating anal diseases among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in a homophobic climate amid resource constraints. Building on a long-term Kenyan-Canadian collaboration, an anal healthcare intervention study, known as the WEMAH Project, was initiated in January 2022. The initial collaborative work strengthened existing anal health services provided at a community-based clinic serving…

  • Boys’ perspectives on girls’ marriage and school dropout: A qualitative study revisiting a structural intervention in Southern India

    Ashwini Pujar, Lottie Howard-Merrill et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Health & Sexuality•2024

    Girls' education has for many decades been central to the global development agenda, due to its positive impact on girls' health and wellbeing. In this paper, the authors revisit boys' attitudes, behaviours and norms related to girls' education, following the Samata intervention to prevent girls' school dropouts in Northern-Karnataka, South India. Data were collected from 20 boys in intervention villages before and after the intervention, and ana…

  • Assessing awareness and use of HIV self-testing kits after the introduction of a community-based HIV self-testing programme among men who have sex with men in Kenya

    Open Access•Souradet Y Shaw, Stella Leung et al.•ARTICLE•PLOS Global Public Health•2023

    Men who have sex with men (MSM) bear a disproportionate burden of new HIV infections in Kenya, while experiencing discrimination, leading to suboptimal levels of HIV care. HIV self-testing (HIVST) is a tool to increase HIV screening and earlier diagnosis; however, questions remain regarding how best to scale-up HIVST to MSM in Kenya. The main objective of this study was to examine changes in knowledge and use of HIVST after implementation of a co…

  • An urgent call to include men who have sex with men in the HPV immunisation programme in Kenya

    Open Access•Robert Lorway, Pascal Macharia et al.•ARTICLE•BMJ Global Health•2022

  • Understanding socio-sexual networks: Critical consideration for HIVST intervention planning among men who have sex with men in Kenya

    Open Access•Lisa Lazarus, Ravi Prakash et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2022

    Willingness to use HIVST was nearly universal and points to the importance of networks for reaching individuals not enrolled in programs. Network analysis can help in understanding which type of networks had higher testing and how network-based approaches can be useful to promote HIVST in certain contexts

  • I have the confidence to ask’: Thickening agency among adolescent girls in Karnataka, South India

    Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Martine Collumbien et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Health & Sexuality•2022

    Gender norms serve to normalise gender inequalities and constrain girls’ agency. This paper examines how girls’ agency, along a continuum, is influenced by the interplay between constraining and enabling influences in the girls’ environments. We analyse data from a qualitative study nested within a cluster randomised evaluation of Samata, a multi-layered programme supporting adolescent girls to stay in school and delay marriage in Karnataka, Sout…

  • Adolescent Girls and Their Family Members’ Attitudes Around Gendered Power Inequity and Associations with Future Aspirations in Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Kalysha Closson, Ravi Prakash et al.•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    Intergenerational differences in inequitable gender attitudes may influence developmental outcomes, including education. In rural Karnataka, India, we examined the extent of intergenerational (adolescent girls [AGs] vs. older generation family members) dis/agreement to attitudes around gendered power inequities, including gender roles and violence against women (VAW). Unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression examined associations between inter…

  • Remaking the Technosubject: Kenyan Men Contextualizing HIV Self-Testing Technologies

    Matthew Thomann, Bernadette Kombo et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 51

    The Kenyan government offers free HIV self-testing kits to men who have sex with men. The value of self-testing is based on the imaginary of an autonomous technosubject empowered to independently control testing services, thereby "freed," through technology, from the social conditions that might inhibit health services utilization. Following a community-centered collaborative approach, community researchers interviewed their peers who examined an…

  • An intensive model of care for hepatitis C virus screening and treatment with direct‐acting antivirals in people who inject drugs in Nairobi, Kenya: A model‐based cost‐effectiveness analysis

    Open Access•Nyashadzaishe Mafirakureva, Jack Stone et al.•ARTICLE•Addiction•2021

    BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment is essential for eliminating HCV in people who inject drugs (PWID), but has limited coverage in resource-limited settings. We measured the cost-effectiveness of a pilot HCV screening and treatment intervention using directly observed therapy among PWID attending harm reduction services in Nairobi, Kenya. DESIGN: We utilized an existing model of HIV and HCV transmission among current and forme…

  • The effects of Covid-19 on the health and socio-economic security of sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya: Emerging intersections with HIV

    Open Access•Joshua Kimani, Joyce Adhiambo et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic, and its attendant responses, has led to massive health, social, and economic challenges on a global scale. While, so far, having a relatively low burden of COVID-19 infection, it is the response in lower- and middle- income countries that has had particularly dire consequences for impoverished populations such as sex workers, many of whom rely on regular income in the informal economic sector to survive. This commentary cap…

  • Low program access despite high burden of sexual, structural, and reproductive health vulnerabilities among young women who sell sex in Mombasa, Kenya

    Open Access•on behalf of the Transitions Study Team, Elizabeth Roberts et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2020

    SDG-related vulnerabilities begin early in the lives of YSW who are not currently reached by programs designed for female sex workers

  • The Samata intervention to increase secondary school completion and reduce child marriage among adolescent girls: Results from a cluster-randomised control trial in India

    Open Access•Ravi Prakash, Tara Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Global Health•2019

    BACKGROUND: Secondary education and delayed marriage provide long-term socio-economic and health benefits to adolescent girls. We tested whether a structural and norms-based intervention, which worked with adolescent girls, their families, communities, and secondary schools to address poverty, schooling quality and gender norms, could reduce secondary school drop-out and child marriage among scheduled-caste/scheduled-tribe (SC/ST) adolescent girl…

  • Media, nationalism, and the body: Exploring masculinities, male partner violence, and HIV vulnerability among female sex workers in northern Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Shamshad Khan, Sapna Nair et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2019

    Public health and media discourses on men and HIV prevention in India have largely focused on changing knowledge, attitudes and risk behaviour pertaining to condom use and safe sex. Little attempt has been made towards intervening in areas such as masculinity, dominant gender norms and intimate partner violence (IPV) that have been shown to have a direct link to HIV prevalence. In this paper, drawing on findings from an ethnographic study in nort…

  • Evaluation of community-based HIV self-testing delivery strategies on reducing undiagnosed HIV infection, and improving linkage to prevention and treatment services, among men who have sex with men in…

    Open Access•Parinita Bhattacharjee, Dorothy Rego et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2019

    This study is one of the first programme science studies in Sub-Saharan Africa exploring the effectiveness of integrating HIVST interventions within already existing HIV prevention and treatment programmes for MSM in Kenya at scale. Findings from this study will inform national best approaches to scale up HIVST among MSM in Kenya

  • What determines violence among female sex workers in an intimate partner relationship? Findings from North Karnataka, south India

    Open Access•Prakash Javalkar, Lucy Platt et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2019

    Clinical Trials NCT02807259

  • Exploring male adolescents' perceptions of gender relations in South India: A project ethnography of the Parivartan program

    Open Access•Anthony Huynh, Satyanarayana Ramanaik et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Social Care in the…•2019•References: 5

    In Northern Karnataka, South India, boys' behaviours and attitudes towards girls are regarded as one of the many important proximate structural barriers impeding girls' access to education and academic performance in rural communities. In response to these barriers, public health practitioners developed an intervention, known as the Parivartan program, to confront the wider social and structural influences that shape adolescent boys' perspectives…

  • Developing a Mental Health Measurement Strategy to Capture Psychological Problems among Lower Caste Adolescent Girls in Rural, South India

    Open Access•April Mazzuca, Dawood Nagarchi et al.•ARTICLE•Transcultural Psychiatry•2019•References: 46

    Adolescent girls vulnerable to early marriage and school dropout in rural India may be at elevated risk of psychosocial problems. However, few screening instruments have been culturally adapted and validated to measure this risk. This paper describes the process by which the Primary Health Questionnaire PHQ-9, a screening instrument for depression, was tested for cultural validity as part of the Samata evaluation - an intervention to support low …

  • Effects of Exposure to an Intensive HIV-prevention Programme on Behavioural Changes among Female Sex Workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open Access•Ravi Prakash, Parinita Bhattacharjee et al.•BOOK•2018

    While Kenya has had a long-standing national HIV-prevention program, evidence on the level of exposure to its interventions and related effects on behavioral changes among female sex workers (FSWs) is limited. Using cross-sectional behavioral data collected in 2013 from 1 357 FSWs aged 18 years and above in Nairobi, Kenya, this study explores the relationship between FSW program exposure levels and behavioral outcomes including condom use, sexual…

  • Dutiful daughters: HIV/Aids, moral pragmatics, female citizenship and structural violence among Devadasis in northern Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Shamshad Khan, Robert Lorway et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2018

    Decades of research have documented how sex workers worldwide, particularly female sex workers (FSWs), shoulder a disproportionate burden of the HIV epidemic. In India, although a substantial progress has been made in controlling the epidemic, its prevalence among FSWs and the Devadasis (also called traditional sex workers) in northern Karnataka is still significantly high. On the other hand, much of the HIV prevention research has focused on the…

  • Ecologies of security: On the everyday security tactics of female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open Access•Robert Lorway, Lisa Lazarus et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2018

    This paper highlights important environmental dimensions of HIV vulnerability by describing how the sex trade operates in Nairobi, Kenya. Although sex workers there encounter various forms of violence and harassment, as do sex workers globally, we highlight how they do not merely fall victim to a set of environmental risks but also act upon their social environment, thereby remaking it, as they strive to protect their health and financial interes…

  • Effects of exposure to an intensive HIV-prevention programme on behavioural changes among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Ravi Prakash, Parinita Bhattacharjee et al.•ARTICLE•African Journal of AIDS Research•2018

    While Kenya has had a long-standing national HIV-prevention programme, evidence on the level of exposure to its interventions and related effects on behavioural changes among female sex workers (FSWs) is limited. Using cross-sectional behavioural data collected in 2013 from 1 357 FSWs aged 18 years and above in Nairobi, Kenya, this study explores the relationship between FSW programme exposure levels and behavioural outcomes including condom use,…

  • Intervening in masculinity: Work, relationships and violence among the intimate partners of female sex workers in South India

    Open Access•Anthony Huynh, Shamshad Khan et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2018

    Although health researchers have begun to examine the forms of violence and power dynamics that play out in the intimate relationships of female sex workers (FSWs) in India, this knowledge has tended to focus on the perspectives of women, leaving men’s motivations and attitudes relatively unexamined. This paper examines the contours of masculinity and gender norms from the perspective of the intimate partners of FSWs. Based on six months of ethno…

  • Pursuing Authenticity From Process to Outcome in a Community-Based Participatory Research Study of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Vulnerability in North Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Andrea Katryn Blanchard, Chaitanya Aids Tadegattuva Mahila Sangha et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 37

    Community-based participatory research has been seen to hold great promise by researchers aiming to bridge research and action in global health programs and practice. However, there is still much debate around whether achieving authenticity in terms of in-depth collaboration between community and academic partners is possible while pursuing academic expectations for quality. This article describes the community-based methodology for a qualitative…

  • Reducing violence and increasing condom use in the intimate partnerships of female sex workers: Study protocol for Samvedana Plus, a cluster randomised controlled trial in Karnataka state, south India

    Open Access•Tara Beattie, Tara S Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2016

    Clinical Trials NCT02807259 Jun 24 2016 (retrospectively registered)

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  • The barriers and enablers to education among scheduled caste and scheduled tribe adolescent girls in northern Karnataka, South India: A qualitative study

    Open Access•Lalitha Bhagavatheeswaran, Sapna Nair et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2016•Cited by: 19•References: 6

    This qualitative study explored the barriers and enablers to scheduled caste/scheduled tribe (SC/ST) adolescent girls entering into, and completing secondary education in northern Karnataka, South India. In-depth interviews were conducted with 22 adolescent girls, their respective parent/guardian (n = 22) and 11 teachers, recruited purposively from 11 villages within two districts in northern Karnataka. Multiple barriers were identified to disadv…

  • Personal, interpersonal and structural challenges to accessing HIV testing, treatment and care services among female sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgenders in Karnataka state, South I…

    Tara Beattie, Tara S H Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 19

    BACKGROUND: Despite high HIV prevalence rates among most-at-risk groups, utilisation of HIV testing, treatment and care services was relatively low in Karnataka prior to 2008. The authors aimed to understand the barriers to and identify potential solutions for improving HIV service utilisation. METHODS: Focus group discussions were carried out among homogeneous groups of female sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgenders, and programm…

  • Pursuing Authenticity From Process to Outcome in a Community-Based Participatory Research Study of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Vulnerability in North Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Andrea Katryn Blanchard, Chaitanya Aids Tadegattuva Mahila Sangha et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 37

    Community-based participatory research has been seen to hold great promise by researchers aiming to bridge research and action in global health programs and practice. However, there is still much debate around whether achieving authenticity in terms of in-depth collaboration between community and academic partners is possible while pursuing academic expectations for quality. This article describes the community-based methodology for a qualitative…

  • Community Mobilization and Empowerment of Female Sex Workers in Karnataka State, South India: Associations With HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk

    Tara Beattie, Tara S H Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2014•Cited by: 2•References: 48

    Objectives. We examined the impact of community mobilization (CM) on the empowerment, risk behaviors, and prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infection in female sex workers (FSWs) in Karnataka, India. Methods. We conducted behavioral–biological surveys in 2008 and 2011 in 4 districts of Karnataka, India. We defined exposure to CM as low, medium (attended nongovernmental organization meeting or drop-in centre), or high (member of collectiv…

  • Adolescent Girls and Their Family Members’ Attitudes Around Gendered Power Inequity and Associations with Future Aspirations in Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Kalysha Closson, Ravi Prakash et al.•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    Intergenerational differences in inequitable gender attitudes may influence developmental outcomes, including education. In rural Karnataka, India, we examined the extent of intergenerational (adolescent girls [AGs] vs. older generation family members) dis/agreement to attitudes around gendered power inequities, including gender roles and violence against women (VAW). Unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression examined associations between inter…

  • Remaking the Technosubject: Kenyan Men Contextualizing HIV Self-Testing Technologies

    Matthew Thomann, Bernadette Kombo et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 51

    The Kenyan government offers free HIV self-testing kits to men who have sex with men. The value of self-testing is based on the imaginary of an autonomous technosubject empowered to independently control testing services, thereby "freed," through technology, from the social conditions that might inhibit health services utilization. Following a community-centered collaborative approach, community researchers interviewed their peers who examined an…

  • Stepping Stones - a participatory tool to integrate gender into HIV/Aids work

    Parinita Bhattacharjee•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2000•Cited by: 1

    Stepping Stones is a training package on HIV/AIDS, gender, communication, and relationship skills designed both for use in existing HIV/AIDS projects and more generally. Narrating her experience of a training of trainers programme in India, the author explores the possibilities and challenges of using this as a means of integrating gender into HIV/AIDS projects. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis

  • Stepping Stones - a participatory tool to integrate gender into HIV/Aids work

    Parinita Bhattacharjee•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2000•Cited by: 1

    Stepping Stones is a training package on HIV/AIDS, gender, communication, and relationship skills designed both for use in existing HIV/AIDS projects and more generally. Narrating her experience of a training of trainers programme in India, the author explores the possibilities and challenges of using this as a means of integrating gender into HIV/AIDS projects. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis

  • Violence against female sex workers in Karnataka state, south India: Impact on health, and reductions in violence following an intervention program

    Open Access•Tara Beattie, Tara SH Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2010

    This program demonstrates that a structural approach to addressing violence can be effectively delivered at scale. Addressing violence against FSWs is important for the success of HIV prevention programs, and for protecting their basic human rights

  • An integrated structural intervention to reduce vulnerability to HIV and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Karnataka state, south India

    Open Access•Vandana Gurnani, Tara Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2011

    Stigma, discrimination, violence, harassment and social equity issues are critical concerns of FSWs. This report demonstrates that it is possible to address these broader structural factors as part of large-scale HIV prevention programming. Although assessing the impact of the various components of a structural intervention on reducing HIV vulnerability is difficult, addressing the broader structural factors contributing to FSW vulnerability is c…

  • Evaluation of Stepping Stones as a tool for changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours associated with gender, relationships and HIV risk in Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Janet Bradley, Janet E Bradley et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2011

    The qualitative part of this study reflects other studies in different settings, in that SS participants gained immensely from the training. Wider behaviour change is a challenging goal that many programmes fail to attain, with most interventions too limited in scope and intensity to produce larger community effects. This may have contributed to the fact that we observed few differences between interventions and non-intervention villages in this …

  • Changes in HIV knowledge, and socio-cultural and sexual attitudes in South India from 2003-2009

    Open Access•Janet Bradley, S Rajaram et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2011

    Despite increases over time in HIV-related knowledge and reductions in stigmatizing attitudes, resistance to changing cultural mores was apparent, with less willingness to embrace openness and discuss sexuality. Young and female respondents appeared to be the most resistant to change, reflecting a cultural inertia that mirrors studies of other pressures on traditional societal values. More effort is required to advocate among women and young peop…

  • Characterizing sexual histories of women before formal sex-work in south India from a cross-sectional survey: Implications for HIV/STI prevention

    Open Access•Sharmistha Mishra, Satyanarayana Ramanaik et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2012

    FSWs identify as sex-workers several years after becoming sexually active, even when the first-sex is commercial in nature. Long-term partnerships are common after a commercial first-sex, and are associated with a delay in formally entering the sex-trade. The findings call for a better understanding of HIV/STI risk before FSWs identify as sex-workers, and an adaptive programme to reach this period of vulnerability

  • Personal, interpersonal and structural challenges to accessing HIV testing, treatment and care services among female sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgenders in Karnataka state, South I…

    Tara Beattie, Tara S H Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2012•Cited by: 9•References: 19

    BACKGROUND: Despite high HIV prevalence rates among most-at-risk groups, utilisation of HIV testing, treatment and care services was relatively low in Karnataka prior to 2008. The authors aimed to understand the barriers to and identify potential solutions for improving HIV service utilisation. METHODS: Focus group discussions were carried out among homogeneous groups of female sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgenders, and programm…

  • Understanding the role of peer group membership in reducing HIV-related risk and vulnerability among female sex workers in Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Parinita Bhattacharjee, Ravi Prakash et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2013

    In Karnataka state, South India, we analyzed the role of membership in peer groups in reducing HIV-related risk and vulnerability among female sex workers (FSWs). Data from three surveys conducted in Karnataka, a behavioral tracking survey and two rounds of integrated biological and behavioral assessments (IBBAs), were analyzed. Using propensity score matching, we examined the impact of group membership on selected outcomes, including condom use,…

  • Community mobilization, empowerment and HIV prevention among female sex workers in south India

    Open Access•Andrea Katryn Blanchard, Haranahalli Lakkappa Mohan et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2013

    These findings support the hypothesis that community mobilization has benefits for empowering FSWs both individually and collectively. HIV prevention is strengthened by improving their ability to address different psycho-social and community-level sources of their vulnerability. Future challenges include the need to develop social, political and legal contexts that support community mobilization of FSWs, and to prospectively measure the impact of…

  • Intimate relationships of Devadasi sex workers in South India: An exploration of risks of HIV/STI transmission

    Open Access•Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Laura H Thompson et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2014

    Global literature on female sex workers suggests that being in an intimate relationship is associated with barriers to practising safe sex behaviours. Condom use within intimate relationships is often seen as a sign of infidelity and fosters mistrust which could affect longevity, trust and intimacy within partnerships. Using qualitative data from Devadasi sex workers and their intimate male partners in Bagalkot District, Karnataka, India, we exam…

  • Circumstances, experiences and processes surrounding women's entry into sex work in India

    Leigh M McClarty, Parinita Bhattacharjee et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Health & Sexuality•2014

    Evidence suggests that in India, the early stages of a woman's career as a sex worker may be an important period to target for HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention. Before such an intervention is designed and implemented, it is necessary to first understand the life circumstances of women at the start of their sex work careers. We performed a review to bring together available literature pertaining to entry into sex work in India and…

  • Community Mobilization and Empowerment of Female Sex Workers in Karnataka State, South India: Associations With HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk

    Tara Beattie, Tara S H Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2014•Cited by: 2•References: 48

    Objectives. We examined the impact of community mobilization (CM) on the empowerment, risk behaviors, and prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infection in female sex workers (FSWs) in Karnataka, India. Methods. We conducted behavioral–biological surveys in 2008 and 2011 in 4 districts of Karnataka, India. We defined exposure to CM as low, medium (attended nongovernmental organization meeting or drop-in centre), or high (member of collectiv…

  • Fertility intentions, power relations and condom use within intimate and other non-paying partnerships of women in sex work in Bagalkot District, South India

    K Deering, Kathleen N Deering et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2015

    This study aimed to: (1) examine the relationship between interpersonal as well as social-demographic, cultural and structural factors, and condom non-use by sex workers' main intimate or other non-paying male sex partners (NPPs), as reported by a sample of sex workers (SWs); and (2) understand HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STIs) risk (e.g., numbers of sexual partners; condom use with different partners) among couples comprised of a sub-se…

  • Supporting adolescent girls to stay in school, reduce child marriage and reduce entry into sex work as HIV risk prevention in north Karnataka, India: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

    Open Access•Tara Beattie, Tara S Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2015

    ClinicalTrials.Gov NCT01996241 . 16th November 2013

  • Reducing violence and increasing condom use in the intimate partnerships of female sex workers: Study protocol for Samvedana Plus, a cluster randomised controlled trial in Karnataka state, south India

    Open Access•Tara Beattie, Tara S Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2016

    Clinical Trials NCT02807259 Jun 24 2016 (retrospectively registered)

  • The barriers and enablers to education among scheduled caste and scheduled tribe adolescent girls in northern Karnataka, South India: A qualitative study

    Open Access•Lalitha Bhagavatheeswaran, Sapna Nair et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2016•Cited by: 19•References: 6

    This qualitative study explored the barriers and enablers to scheduled caste/scheduled tribe (SC/ST) adolescent girls entering into, and completing secondary education in northern Karnataka, South India. In-depth interviews were conducted with 22 adolescent girls, their respective parent/guardian (n = 22) and 11 teachers, recruited purposively from 11 villages within two districts in northern Karnataka. Multiple barriers were identified to disadv…

  • Pursuing Authenticity From Process to Outcome in a Community-Based Participatory Research Study of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Vulnerability in North Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Andrea Katryn Blanchard, Chaitanya Aids Tadegattuva Mahila Sangha et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 37

    Community-based participatory research has been seen to hold great promise by researchers aiming to bridge research and action in global health programs and practice. However, there is still much debate around whether achieving authenticity in terms of in-depth collaboration between community and academic partners is possible while pursuing academic expectations for quality. This article describes the community-based methodology for a qualitative…

  • Effects of Exposure to an Intensive HIV-prevention Programme on Behavioural Changes among Female Sex Workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open Access•Ravi Prakash, Parinita Bhattacharjee et al.•BOOK•2018

    While Kenya has had a long-standing national HIV-prevention program, evidence on the level of exposure to its interventions and related effects on behavioral changes among female sex workers (FSWs) is limited. Using cross-sectional behavioral data collected in 2013 from 1 357 FSWs aged 18 years and above in Nairobi, Kenya, this study explores the relationship between FSW program exposure levels and behavioral outcomes including condom use, sexual…

  • Dutiful daughters: HIV/Aids, moral pragmatics, female citizenship and structural violence among Devadasis in northern Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Shamshad Khan, Robert Lorway et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2018

    Decades of research have documented how sex workers worldwide, particularly female sex workers (FSWs), shoulder a disproportionate burden of the HIV epidemic. In India, although a substantial progress has been made in controlling the epidemic, its prevalence among FSWs and the Devadasis (also called traditional sex workers) in northern Karnataka is still significantly high. On the other hand, much of the HIV prevention research has focused on the…

  • Ecologies of security: On the everyday security tactics of female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Open Access•Robert Lorway, Lisa Lazarus et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2018

    This paper highlights important environmental dimensions of HIV vulnerability by describing how the sex trade operates in Nairobi, Kenya. Although sex workers there encounter various forms of violence and harassment, as do sex workers globally, we highlight how they do not merely fall victim to a set of environmental risks but also act upon their social environment, thereby remaking it, as they strive to protect their health and financial interes…

  • Effects of exposure to an intensive HIV-prevention programme on behavioural changes among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

    Ravi Prakash, Parinita Bhattacharjee et al.•ARTICLE•African Journal of AIDS Research•2018

    While Kenya has had a long-standing national HIV-prevention programme, evidence on the level of exposure to its interventions and related effects on behavioural changes among female sex workers (FSWs) is limited. Using cross-sectional behavioural data collected in 2013 from 1 357 FSWs aged 18 years and above in Nairobi, Kenya, this study explores the relationship between FSW programme exposure levels and behavioural outcomes including condom use,…

  • Intervening in masculinity: Work, relationships and violence among the intimate partners of female sex workers in South India

    Open Access•Anthony Huynh, Shamshad Khan et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2018

    Although health researchers have begun to examine the forms of violence and power dynamics that play out in the intimate relationships of female sex workers (FSWs) in India, this knowledge has tended to focus on the perspectives of women, leaving men’s motivations and attitudes relatively unexamined. This paper examines the contours of masculinity and gender norms from the perspective of the intimate partners of FSWs. Based on six months of ethno…

  • The Samata intervention to increase secondary school completion and reduce child marriage among adolescent girls: Results from a cluster-randomised control trial in India

    Open Access•Ravi Prakash, Tara Beattie et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Global Health•2019

    BACKGROUND: Secondary education and delayed marriage provide long-term socio-economic and health benefits to adolescent girls. We tested whether a structural and norms-based intervention, which worked with adolescent girls, their families, communities, and secondary schools to address poverty, schooling quality and gender norms, could reduce secondary school drop-out and child marriage among scheduled-caste/scheduled-tribe (SC/ST) adolescent girl…

  • Media, nationalism, and the body: Exploring masculinities, male partner violence, and HIV vulnerability among female sex workers in northern Karnataka, India

    Open Access•Shamshad Khan, Sapna Nair et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2019

    Public health and media discourses on men and HIV prevention in India have largely focused on changing knowledge, attitudes and risk behaviour pertaining to condom use and safe sex. Little attempt has been made towards intervening in areas such as masculinity, dominant gender norms and intimate partner violence (IPV) that have been shown to have a direct link to HIV prevalence. In this paper, drawing on findings from an ethnographic study in nort…

  • Evaluation of community-based HIV self-testing delivery strategies on reducing undiagnosed HIV infection, and improving linkage to prevention and treatment services, among men who have sex with men in…

    Open Access•Parinita Bhattacharjee, Dorothy Rego et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2019

    This study is one of the first programme science studies in Sub-Saharan Africa exploring the effectiveness of integrating HIVST interventions within already existing HIV prevention and treatment programmes for MSM in Kenya at scale. Findings from this study will inform national best approaches to scale up HIVST among MSM in Kenya

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