Public Participation of Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Context of Community Empowerment in India
| Autor: | Karikalan Nagarajan, Seema Sahay, Ramesh S. Paranjape, Deepika Ganju |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Gerontology
Social stigma business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Immunology Context (language use) Dermatology Social engagement Men who have sex with men Infectious Diseases Community mobilization Virology Public participation Medicine business Empowerment Peer education Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research. |
| ISSN: | 2155-6113 |
| DOI: | 10.4172/2155-6113.1000509 |
| Popis: | Background: Men who have sex with men (MSM) remain a hidden and hard-to-reach high-risk group. MSM experience stigma, discrimination and criminalization in India. The organized participation of MSM in “public spaces” --through which they openly identify themselves as MSM, address social stigma, and demand their rights and entitlements-- is an indicator of their empowerment process against structural barriers. This paper assesses MSMs’ “public participation” and the contextual factors that influence them. Method: Data were drawn from a cross-sectional Integrated Behavioral and Biological -Assessment survey conducted during 2009-2010 in Tamil Nadu, India. Information was collected on the socio-demographic characteristics, public participation, community mobilization, vulnerability and risk status of 1757 MSM. Two set of measures thought to influence MSMs’ public participation were considered-- “push” factors and “pull “factors. Pull factors were related to MSMs’ community mobilization status and push factors were related to MSMs’ risk and vulnerability. Results: Almost half of the MSM (48%) reported public participation in the past six months. Univariate and Multiple regression analysis shows that pull factors [exposure to peer education (OR 8.2 (4.0-16.6); AOR-6.1(1.9-19.4); p |
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