Re: Message from India UNAIDS Country Coordinator, Dr. Gilks

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Dear Forum

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I hope now more debates about Human sexual Health will take place over AIDS

INDIA.

I have heard from few Gay Activists and also known a couple of Gay Couple who

got married in the temple and live together, that it is the unprotected

multi-partner sex that puts them at risk for any infection.

So debatable issue is to what will be strategies used by CBOs' to ensure

that Gay Rights are met as well as positive prevention behaviour is observed.

A lot of condoms are distributed but there is very little knowledge about

condom use during sexual act in sexual minorities and mainstreamities.

Positive prevention data from the sexuallly active majorities or minorities is

not known to me. I will be happy to have the same.

Also, power dynamics, financial needs and emotional dependence are the

determinants of decision making during a lot of sexual activity.

How will these be addressed so that people enjoy sexual health, partnership and

belonging which are subtle forces and needs that motivates individuals to take

to relationships.

Regards

Minal Mehta

State Coordinator

Engender Health Society

Mumbai-Maharashtra

e-mail: <Meenalmehta@...>

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Dear Forum,

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It is about time that human sexuality is discussed in India.

I left India after my gay uncle comitted suicide after having returned to India

from Finland, and I felt India was way behind such ideas, and I had to survive.

But I lept from the frying pan to the fire, not knowing that AIDS was

spreading in USA, and that North America was far behind Europe in its sexual

liberation.

Kudos to Ashok Rao Kavi, Donn Colby and Minal Mehta to start talking about such

subjects.

I also want to add kudos to my close friend, Sandeep Roychowdhury who used

Trikone to put human sexuality on the South Asian map, reeling from fear

created by two hundred years of British rule.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

Priyadarshi Datta, PhD, (PLWA)

e-mail: <pdatta@...>