@article{dc8b887e1de64fa5bc36bc201c9610c4,
title = "Factors affecting the vulnerability of female slum youth to HIV/AIDS in Delhi and Hyderabad, India",
abstract = "This paper builds upon the theoretical framework advanced by the growing literature on vulnerability. The paper explores how vulnerability to HIV/AIDS applies to young women living in the slum areas of New Delhi and Hyderabad. This circumscription of scope is based on a study on AIDS awareness levels in these two Indian cities conducted during summer of 2006. Using a qualitative approach, the paper offers insightful narratives from a sample of 26 women about their cultural and socio-economic circumstances with reference to HIV/AIDS. The excerpts from these women give a poignant view of their precarious circumstances with reference to lack of female autonomy, economic vulnerability, low AIDS awareness, and lack of access to pertinent information about HIV. The female youth were highly susceptible to the double bind of age and gender based hierarchies present in the patriarchal Indian social system.",
keywords = "Delhi, Female slum youth, HIV/AIDS, Hyderabad, India, Vulnerability",
author = "Vandana Wadhwa and Jayati Ghosh and Ezekiel Kalipeni",
note = "Acknowledgments This article is based on an initial short report that was published in Social Science and Medicine 68(4), (2009), pp. 638–642, titled: {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Vulnerability of Youth to HIV/AIDS in India: Special Reference to Female Slum Youth{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} and co-authored by Jayati Ghosh, Vandana Wadhwa and Ezekiel Kalipeni. Some of the portions from that report are reproduced in this expanded version with permission of Elsevier, the publishers of Social Science and Medicine. We also wish to acknowledge financial support received from a Research Grant offered by the Association of American Geographers and the Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group Travel Grant that made this study possible. The grants were awarded to the first author in 2006 for {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Lessons from the Dynamics of AIDS Awareness among Indian Women: Case Studies, New Delhi and Hyderabad, India.{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} We sincerely thank the decisionmakers at both bodies. Thanks are also due to Dr. Baleshwar Thakur (Professor at Delhi University); Dr. Kalpana Markandey and Dr. S. Simadhri (both Professors at Osmania University); Mr. Sree Vikram Bhikkaji, PTC; Dr. P.P. Singh (Medical Superintendent, Swami Dayanand Hospital, Delhi and former Project Director IIP-VIII); Dr. Gurpreet Singh (Public Health Consultant, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and former MIS In-charge, IPP-VIII, Municipal Corporation of Delhi); Dr. Satyavathi (District Medical and Health Officer, Hyderabad); Research students Jaya and Sarika (Delhi University), Pratigna and Premlata (Osmania University); and health personnel from the Health Posts. We are immensely grateful to the women who took part in this study for their cooperation and participation. Finally, thanks to the reviewers for their comments that greatly helped to crystallize this work.",
year = "2012",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1007/s10708-010-9359-5",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "77",
pages = "475--488",
journal = "GeoJournal",
issn = "0343-2521",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "4",
}