“HIV Is Our Friend”

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti
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This chapter provides an overview of HIV/AIDS policies as well as how sexually marginalized groups are drawn into biopower programs as “high-risk” groups. In 1983, when HIV/AIDS was first detected among sex workers in India, the state’s initial response was to blame the sex workers themselves as well as to forcefully test them and confine them in prison. However, it proved impossible to incarcerate every sex worker and to stop the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Instead, I argue, ultimately a consensus formed that supported giving marginalized groups a leadership role in tackling the epidemic. Drawing on ethnographic observations and the HIV/AIDS policy of the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), this chapter also highlights how these biopower projects deepened the involvement of high-risk groups as they moved from simple prevention to behavioral change. Ultimately, communities became extensions of biopower projects as they implemented these programs at the day-to-day level.
“爱滋病是我们的朋友”
本章概述了艾滋病毒/艾滋病政策,以及性边缘化群体如何作为“高风险”群体被纳入生物能源项目。1983年,当印度的性工作者中首次发现艾滋病毒/艾滋病时,该邦最初的反应是指责性工作者自己,并强行对她们进行检测,并将她们关进监狱。然而,事实证明不可能监禁每一位性工作者,也不可能阻止艾滋病毒/艾滋病的蔓延。相反,我认为,最终形成了一种共识,即支持边缘化群体在应对这一流行病方面发挥领导作用。根据人种学观察和国家艾滋病控制组织(NACO)的艾滋病毒/艾滋病政策,本章还强调了这些生物能源项目如何在从简单的预防转向行为改变的过程中加深了高风险群体的参与。最终,当社区在日常层面上实施这些项目时,社区成为了生物能源项目的延伸。
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