Male migration and risky sexual behavior in rural India: is the place of origin critical for HIV prevention programs?

N Saggurti, B Mahapatra, SN Swain, AK Jain - BMC Public Health, 2011 - Springer
Background Recent studies of male migrants in India indicate that those who are infected
with HIV are spreading the epidemic from high risk populations in high prevalence areas to …

Migration, mobility and sexual risk behavior in Mumbai, India: mobile men with non-residential wife show increased risk

N Saggurti, SL Schensul, RK Verma - AIDS and Behavior, 2009 - Springer
This paper examines the relationship of migration and mobility of husband and wife to
sexual risk behaviors among married men living in economically marginal communities in …

Male out-migration: a factor for the spread of HIV infection among married men and women in rural India

N Saggurti, B Mahapatra, S Sabarwal, S Ghosh, A Johri - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Thus far, the reasons for increasing HIV prevalence in northern and eastern
Indian states are unknown. We investigated the role of male out-migration in the spread of …

Migration and HIV transmission in rural South India: an ethnographic study

SS Halli, J Blanchard, DG Satihal… - Culture, health & …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
There is a widespread assumption in Northern Karnataka, India that HIV transmission is due
to the large volume of male seasonal labour out‐migration. In order to examine this issue, an …

Male migration/mobility and HIV among married couples: cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative data from India

N Saggurti, S Nair, A Malviya, MR Decker… - AIDS and Behavior, 2012 - Springer
This paper examines the associations between male migration and mobility with HIV among
married couples in India. Cross-sectional analyses of a nationally representative household …

The effect of mobility on sexual risk behaviour and HIV infection: a cross-sectional study of men who have sex with men in southern India

S Ramesh, P Mehrotra, B Mahapatra, D Ganju… - Sexually transmitted …, 2014 - sti.bmj.com
Objectives Mobility is an important factor contributing to the spread of HIV among key
population at risk for HIV; however, research linking this relationship among men who have …

Risk of sexually-transmitted infections among migrant men: Findings from a survey in Delhi

A Mishra - Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Male outmigration has been a traditional feature of rural to urban migration in India. Many of
these out-migrants are married and have left their families behind. This raises the question …

Migration/mobility and risk factors for HIV among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: implications for HIV prevention

E Reed, J Gupta, M Biradavolu… - … journal of STD & …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
We examined the relation between high mobility/migration (sex work in three or more
villages/towns within the past year) and HIV risk factors among a sample of female sex …

Migrants' risky sexual behaviours in India and at home in far western Nepal

KC Poudel, M Jimba, J Okumura… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Objective To examine Nepali migrants' vulnerability to HIV/sexually transmitted
infections (STIs) and their possible role in causing the epidemic in far western Nepal …

Migration and HIV in India: Study of select districts

N Saggurti, B Mahapatra, SN Swain, M Battala… - 2011 - knowledgecommons.popcouncil.org
Report of a study assessing the important role of migration in the spread of HIV in districts
with high out-migration in India. The study suggests a considerable spread of HIV linked to …