NACP III : World Bank social assessment of HIV/AIDS among tribal people in India

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[Moderators comment: This report would remain as a classic example of abuse of

Anthropology. A graduate Social Anthropology student would have dome a better

job.

Indian urban middle class’s, prejudicial kitchen discourse on tribal

populations, concocted with myths and ethnocentric ‘holier than thou’

statements, peppered with the authors wild imaginations are pontificated by

World bank as a social assessment report of HIV/AIDS among tribal people in

India. This report presents shocking poverty of methodology and shallow

analysis. The contempt and disdain of the authors to the study population is

spread around the report.

This report gloss over some of the critical issues. The migration of ‘Tribal

population’ to urban ghettos is fuelled by land alienation and “development

project” induced. This report makes is no indication of the disproportionate

social consequences of Injection drug use related HIV infection on ethnic

minorities in North Eastern region of India. The impact of HIV infection among

Meitei, Kuki, Thadou and Paite is disastrous. The survival of Hmars as an ethic

community is already under serious threat, as disproportionate number of young

people from this community is living with HIV/AIDS. Withholding timely

assistance to ethnic minority communities, under the guise of ‘controlling

insurgency’ has contributed to the spread of infection. Most of these

communities, AIDS is “that English name disease”.]

India - Third National AIDS Control Project : social assessment of

HIV/AIDS among tribal people in India

Abstract: The Third National AIDS Control Program (NACP) Project

aims to go beyond the high risk behavior groups covered by targeted

interventions: It extends interventions to tribal populations who

constitute the second largest concentration of tribal populations in

the world. The social assessment aims to comprehensively document

the prevalence and risk of HIV/AIDS among tribal people, their

levels of knowledge, social and behavioral causes and consequences

of HIV/AIDS (including stigma), and strategies used for prevention,

diagnosis, treatment, and care of those with HIV/AIDS in order to

ensure appropriate program design and implementation to reduce the

disease's spread and improve its management. This report is also to

be used as a mechanism for pre-project stakeholder consultations and

to design continuous stakeholder consultations during the project.

The report is comprised of seven chapters. An executive summary and

tribal action plan begins the report, and the other sections

describe the project; basic information on HIV/AIDS in the tribal

communities; national and local health policies and the legal

framework regarding HIV/AIDS; the organizational structure of

relevant national, state, and local institutions; and

recommendations to increase tribal community participation,

including creating a special structure at the national and local

level, identifying vulnerable and socially disadvantaged populations

as well, expanding the administrative structure of each of the State

AIDS Control Society, linking to services provided for maternal and

child health, carrying out behavioral studies, and sensitizing staff

to mainstream HIV/AIDS policies into their respective programs.

Author: ACNielsen ORG-MARG; Country: India;

India - Third National AIDS Control Project : social assessment of

HIV/AIDS among tribal people in India

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/record?docid=000020953_20061117141000