Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, and Agency explores the use of
communication to transform global, national, and local structures of power that create and …

Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining
solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same …

Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences-such as biotechnologies in
health, agricultural and environmental arenas-pose a range of pressing challenges to …

Despite significant economic growth in both developed and emerging markets, several
disadvantaged and marginalized segments of the global population still live in poverty …

This book examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role
of this international system and global discourse on HIV/AIDS interventions. The …

In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic
by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health …

India has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Asia and the second largest in
the world after South Africa. The Indian media play an important role in the social …

This study seeks to understand how public health messages provided by the government in
Singapore during an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic were framed by the news media for the …

Long-distance truck drivers (truckers) in India have been identified as a “high-risk” group for
the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and are consequently the targets of prevention and education …

This paper examines technical practices, such as epidemiological modeling, used to
produce HIV-prevalence estimates within India's national policy establishment. These …