Re: Former US Soccer Player to lead HIV research in India !!

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum,

Ultimately a soccer player! That is what was left for us to hear!!

Good news indeed!!! Cheers!!!! A soccer player from abroad is heading the

research team on " Socio–economic impact of AIDS on Households " as if there is

absolute poverty of qualified researchers

from India.

Over and above, the person who is heading is an MA student in Political Science

at Boston College. Is our level of education so " rubbish " that qualified PhDs

with 5–10 years of hands on experience do not get a chance for doing such a

job? Or to put it

otherwise, when this country has such a huge level of unemployment,

why these foreigners are recruited for overlooking/ heading

programmes?

I understand, he has been recruited by UN, but did UN not find any qualified

person from a country of 1.2 billion? That's shame! I wonder whether this is

NCAER Project, and if this is so, then how NCAER with its reputed brand of

social scientists would allow a soccer player to head their research team?

This is unbelieveable! I seriously wonder where we are heading up to? And what

is the future of our country AIDS programme with this level of foreign

interference? This issue was raised a few days ago by someone from abroad, but

it seemed to have of little interest to our esteemed readers. Soccer Stars are

good for the field.

But do we really want a soccer star to head our HIV research team?

Mr. Young

A PLHA from Delhi

E-mail: < >

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum Members,

I totally agree with Mr. Young. He has raised a very valid point although its

not new and many of us have raised this time and again. Its necessary to

understand the whole political economy of funded HIV/AIDS research headed by

unprofessional. Most interestingly these surveys, research findings are used at

times to misled us. I think there is strong need to challenge these finding

academically and methodologically.

I do not understand the cheer of people that " Former US Soccer Player to lead

HIV research in India " . Subir Kole has raised these very strongly few days back

and I think this should be contested from the group and activists working in

India. We should understand the difference between researcher and ambassador.

Anant Kumar

Ph. D. Research Scholar

Centre of Social Medicine & Community Health

School of Social Sciences II

Jawaharlal Nehru University

New Delhi, India - 110 067

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