CHAPTER 8 Debates on Intervention Review of HIV/AIDS Related Studies: Perspectives from Anthropology

Much like physicians who suffer from therapeutic impotence in their inability to cure, anthropologists who believe they know how to effectively engage people in protecting themselves suffer from a kind of social and political impotence. Some suffer in silence; others write, use gallows humor, or scream; still others disengage. (Brooke G. Schoepf, 2001) Multidisciplinary research is the current need for understanding complex behaviour related to pandemics and epidemics. From 1981 to 2006, HIV/AIDS has claimed more than 25 million lives1. Studies conducted by WHO have estimated that in 2002 alone, AIDS accounted for 3 % of all deaths in India. The projections for the future ar