After more than twenty years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual
transmission of HIV (and addressing the needs of those most vulnerable to infection) the …

In the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals
descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives. A Fraught …

Contemporary discussions within the arenas of medical anthropology and global health are
often restricted by the driving imperatives to “do something” about a particular health …

This interpretive study draws on interdisciplinary scholarship on affect and knowledge to
ask: toward what feelings do abstinence-only and comprehensive sexuality education …

Winner, 2023 Bernard S. Cohn Prize, Association for Asian Studies Winner, 2021 Joseph W.
Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Winner, 2021 Ruth Benedict Prize, Association for …

HIV prevention with men who have sex with men in India has, in large part, been premised
on the reification of “cultural categories”—kothi being among the most popularized terms in …

In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s,
the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on …

The stakes are high for sex education in South Africa: it has been estimated that 8.7% of
young people live with HIV. Within primarily US and UK contexts, there has been much …

Most social science research on HIV has focused on prevention. The arrival of new
therapies generated more studies on life with HIV. However most have been carried out in …

The last three decades have witnessed a proliferation of nongovernmental organizations
engaging in new campaigns to end the practice of female genital cutting across Africa …