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= GPP 105 Practice Experience Preparation =

Public Health Delivery Innovations & Community Medicine - Delhi, India
I will be working with Child Family Health International. My Practice Experience will take place this coming summer of 2019 in New Delhi, India. After initial orientations both in San Francisco and New Delhi, I believe I will be paired with a supervisor with whom I will rotate through various positions and sectors of public health. The positions include, but are not limited to: a government run hospital, a rural clinic, a juvenile rehab center, an HIV testing/counseling center, an LGBT community center, and an environmental NGO.

Area
LGBT rights in India


 * Many developing changes recently. What are the factors halting progressive changes? The history? What are the forces, internal or external, that are pushing for faster changes? What avenues are most effective? The more the policy becomes accepting and supportive of sexual minorities, the lower the likelihood they will be susceptible to preventable ailments. Things like this take time, but see if I can find sources that support a changing trend between policy, public opinion, and overall health of this population.

Sector
Management of HIV/AIDS


 * On the one hand, 'management' can be meant in strictly medical and individualistic terms, and though that is definitely part of the story, we would be remiss to avoid the implications and challenges of the social side of management. Even when treatment is available, are there forces that keep people from accessing the care that they need? What are the stigmas attached to certain treatments? Include the 90-90-90 goal and what it would take to get to that point.

Signs of a Good Article

 * Detailed lead section: the overview at the start of the article is clear and easy to understand.
 * Clear structure: there are several headings and subheadings arranged chronologically or by themes, with images or diagrams when appropriate.
 * Balanced content: the article covers many aspects of the topic, giving more weight to important viewpoints and less weight to fringe ideas.
 * Neutral tone: the article is written without bias toward a particular point of view, and represents all the different viewpoints that reliable sources have expressed about the topic.
 * Good sourcing: reliable sources are cited throughout the article and as much as possible.

Signs of an Article that Needs Improvement

 * Warning banners: Often these banners make a statement about the article's reliability, though sometimes it's a minor suggestion for improvement. Make a note and read accordingly.
 * Fragmented lead section: A short lead (or one with a lot of mistakes) might indicate that the article was written through staggered contributions and could use a rewrite to tie it together.
 * Value statements: Statements like "the best" or "the most important" are red flags that the article is either written to persuade or isn't well referenced.
 * Gaps in sourcing: Are there references to unnamed sources of information, such as "some people say," or "many believe"? If you can't answer the question, "Who said that?", chances are that a reliable source isn't cited.
 * Under-developed reference section, few citations: There should be a good number of citations, relative to how much information is included in the article. Those citations should be from reliable publishers, not questionable websites or publishers who might like to push an agenda.
 * Imbalanced sections: Sections about an important aspect of the topic shouldn't be shorter than sections about a less important aspect. This sort of imbalance might mean relevant sections are missing entirely.

Evaluating Article: Eye care in India Prompts

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * The article's topic is eye care in India. The article is short, but I do not believe that it can be said that there is anything included that would be considered off topic. That being said, the article lacks a table of contents. I feel that the article, while providing some good information, would benefit from better organization, which I feel could begin with a contents section. Beyond that, I was a bit distracted by a few grammatical/spelling errors and perhaps paragraph and sentence structure that could use some improvement. Sometimes trying to follow and understand the flow of some statements and/or points that were made was more difficult than it probably should be.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * The last edit of the article was in December of 2018, recently made. The article's history shows us that the first edit was actually made on the same day, so again, the article is very young and has lots of room for growth and further additions. The references for this article include one website article that was published in October of 2018 and the other a journal article published in 2007. It is very possible that further peer-reviewed studies have been conducted since then. Adding more recent scholarly references would also strengthen this article's claims, while also broadening the scope of information that could be appropriately covered by this topic.
 * What else could be improved?
 * Regarding what the article does include, some statements seem to lack specifics. Some of the claims made and examples provided could use further elaboration and development. For example, the writer states that there was a survey done in 1976 that motivated the government to action, but there seems to be no details on who conducted the study and why it what set it apart in terms of significance that would lead the government to take it more seriously. Was it because it was one of the first of such eye care studies? One of the most comprehensive? It leads the reader to ask more questions that remain unanswered.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Overall, the article doesn't seem to be too biased towards a position. For the most part, all it attempts to do is identify a particular issue, elaborate on why it is an issue, and go on to share some information on action that has been taken thus far in response to the issue. That being said, there are some adjectives and value statements used in a few particular sentences that I do not feel are necessarily wrong, but could be conveyed in a more matter of fact or neutral way. For example, rather than reading the claim that "local innovation has produced rapid improvements in eye care in India" I might prefer reading first what "improvements" might mean or look like in this context followed by some statistics that would illustrate that the rate of implementation of such improvements has increased over a particular time frame relative to another time period.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * I feel that the article would need further growth to determine whether or not there is an imbalance in viewpoint representation. Again, more reference sources for the facts that are presented would be helpful in this regard.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * The links do work. One redirects to a journal article from the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology and the other to an article from a website called devrex. They both support the writer's claims, but I cannot verify the credibility of the website.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * No, not all of the facts and claims are accounted for. It could be that all of the claims could be attributed to the one citation at the end of a paragraph or two, but I feel that the infrequency of the citation makes that seem ambiguous and ultimately makes it look as though only some of the claims are supported by a reference while leaving others to appear unsubstantiated. Information comes from sources stated above, and any possible bias is not acknowledged.
 * No, not all of the facts and claims are accounted for. It could be that all of the claims could be attributed to the one citation at the end of a paragraph or two, but I feel that the infrequency of the citation makes that seem ambiguous and ultimately makes it look as though only some of the claims are supported by a reference while leaving others to appear unsubstantiated. Information comes from sources stated above, and any possible bias is not acknowledged.


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * There are no conversations on this article's talk page, no evidence of collaboration.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * This article appears to be unrated as of now and not a part of any WikiProjects.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * Well, we haven't spoken about eye care in India specifically yet, but perhaps this topic could benefit from some Katz' analysis.

Area (LGBT rights in India)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927237/


 * Sathyanarayana Rao, T. S.; Jacob, K S (2014). "The reversal on Gay Rights in India". Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 56 (1): 1–2. doi:10.4103/0019-5545.124706. ISSN 0019-5545. PMC 3927237. PMID 24574551.
 * This article argues that the supreme court's decision to ban gay sex is against the interest of those fighting for LGBTQ human rights. It also describes certain ways in which the decision has been shown to be dangerous, including but not limited to law enforcement officials using it to blackmail and unjustly imprison LGBTQ individuals. The article provides insight into judicial/political climate before the recent decriminalization of gay sexual relations, which overturned the supreme court decision this article is referring to. I would use this article as another source to aid in my construction of a timeline and to understand the context of more resent policy action.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2018.1483482?scroll=top&needAccess=true


 * Yadav, Vikash; Kirk, Jason A. (2018-07-29). "State homophobia? India's shifting UN positions on LGBTQ issues". Globalizations. 15 (5): 670–684. doi:10.1080/14747731.2018.1483482. ISSN 1474-7731.


 * India has been shown to adopt contradictory policies regarding LGBTQ rights. This article provides examples of how the changes in LGBTQ rights in India do not purely originate from within, but rather can be influenced by reactionary foreign policy. I can use this to help be both navigate and document the tumultuous road LGBTQ policy has taken. Moreover, the article illuminates the motivations and considerations that would result in such an erratic path.

http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=49&sid=8436ce04-9050-478c-9faa-0b84dcec9961%40sdc-v-sessmgr01


 * Nagar, Ila; DasGupta, Debanuj (December 2015). "Public koti and private love: Section 377, religion, perversity and lived desire". Contemporary South Asia. 23 (4): 426. doi:10.1080/09584935.2015.1056092.


 * Certain long-standing institutions have dominated the rhetoric regarding the private lives of certain populations. These populations are often not well represented by such institutions, and instead directs the religious and political discourse, effectively preventing and/or slowing the realization of LGBTQ rights. The article argues that a language is created that associates that which is non-cis gendered and not heterosexual as inherently 'wrong', 'unnatural', and 'improper'. This article will be used to explore and discuss the relationship between public opinion, needs-talk, and tangible policy change.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339212/


 * Rao, T. S. Sathyanarayana; Jacob, K. S. (2012). "Homosexuality and India". Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 54 (1): 1–3. doi:10.4103/0019-5545.94636. ISSN 0019-5545. PMID 22556428.
 * Speaks to the shifting views of non-heterosexual sexuality particularly in the realms of medical and psychological scholarship. There is more nuance to its understanding, such as distinctions that can be made between behavior, attraction, and identity. With these considerations sexuality is rightly seen as complex and dynamic. The manifestation of this complexity is heavily influenced by context, which this article provides specific to India.

http://docs.manupatra.in/newsline/articles/Upload/7A93092D-3017-413A-AB4E-4D7A1752A854.%20Nussbaum.pdf


 * "disgust or equality..."
 * An eloquent dive into disgust theory and its varying levels. The way that disgust is thought of and the way that it is felt in part determines the ways in which and to what extent individuals and a society will decide to tolerate that which is deemed disgusting. More to the point, it has played a part in Indian law that regulates and relates to sexuality. This essay discusses the specific Naz Foundation case against Section 377 and how disgust-stigma has come to shape its outcome.

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=22eWCwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT9&ots=3SfByPsOBW&sig=qXQ_OPziZZIxb7nF14g_5QFTbbs#v=onepage&q&f=false


 * "Sexual states: Governance..."
 * hh

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14754835.2014.919214?scroll=top&needAccess=true


 * "Queer rights and the triangulation..."
 * hh

https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/31641100/ZaidAlBasetChapter-5HR.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1558010589&Signature=K5kn6qq6vh5s%2BbSue7iuBXGPqvA%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DSection_377_and_the_Myth_of_Heterosexual.pdf


 * "Section 377 and the myth of heterosexuality"
 * hh

Sector (Management of HIV/AIDS)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913538/


 * Simon, V., Ho, D. D., & Karim, Q. A. (2006). HIV/AIDS epidemiology, pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment. Lancet, 368(9534), 489–504. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69157-5
 * General background information on the virus, available treatments, and how/how well they generally work. It identifies drugs available for both prevention and treatment, as well as their shortcomings. As an example, drug resistance can present future problems for those managing their HIV status. The article also outlines the method for clinical diagnosis. This is a good place to look back to to see what treatments/methods of management I could potentially expand upon/further explore should it become necessary.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540120802511877?scroll=top&needAccess=true


 * Logie, C.; Gadalla, T. M. (2009-06-01). "Meta-analysis of health and demographic correlates of stigma towards people living with HIV". AIDS Care. 21 (6): 742–753. doi:10.1080/09540120802511877. ISSN 0954-0121. PMID 19806490.
 * There is a correlation between stigma and poor quality of life for PLHIV. These findings inform us on what levels of society interventions are necessary for improving the health and overall wellbeing of PLHIV. These interventions include policy changes and social/community support that could be implemented in the best avenue for their implementation. This and related articles focus on the fact that the availability of treatment for disease management matters little when there remain social-structural barriers that inhibits an individuals ability to adhere to behaviors that promote good health.

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0640-4

Lazarus, Jeffrey V.; Safreed-Harmon, Kelly; Barton, Simon E.; Costagliola, Dominique; Dedes, Nikos; del Amo Valero, Julia; Gatell, Jose M.; Baptista-Leite, Ricardo; Mendão, Luís (2016-06-22). "Beyond viral suppression of HIV – the new quality of life frontier". BMC Medicine. 14 (1): 94. doi:10.1186/s12916-016-0640-4. ISSN 1741-7015.


 * The 90-90-90 method fails to look at the factors that PLHIV face after suppression of their viral load. Depression, anxiety, discrimination, and more still have a very real impact on these individuals' lives and threaten maintenance of their health progress. Not contracting HIV in the first place is one thing. Suppressing one's viral load is another (via 90-90-90 method), but should that be the end of the discussion when we consider what management is? At the beginning of my 112 class we clarified that the way we need to define health is not simply the absence of malady or affliction, but the notable presence of well being. This study suggests adding another '90' to the method that would help to ensure quality of life of PLHIV.

https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/constitution


 * "Constitution". www.who.int. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
 * World Health Organization constitution preamble. Their view of what health should be. Not Scholarly.
 * World Health Organization constitution preamble. Their view of what health should be. Not Scholarly.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(14)70018-9/fulltext


 * Lampe, Fiona C.; Sherr, Lorraine; Hart, Graham; Collins, Simon; Anderson, Jane; Fisher, Martin; Speakman, Andrew; Rodger, Alison; Kreif, Noemi (2014-10-01). "Health-related quality-of-life of people with HIV in the era of combination antiretroviral treatment: a cross-sectional comparison with the general population". The Lancet HIV. 1 (1): e32–e40. doi:10.1016/S2352-3018(14)70018-9. ISSN 2352-3018.
 * This article's interpretation comes from the merging of two cross-sectional UK studies on the health related quality of life (HRQoL) people living with HIV have versus the general population. Results pointed to lower HRQoL scores for people living with HIV throughout their life even if they are virologically stable. This was especially the case with certain mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448913/


 * "Health-related Quality of Life Assessment after Antiretroviral Therapy: A Review of the Literature"
 * ll

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361060832X?via%3Dihub#cesec50


 * "Treatment and care for injecting drug users with HIV infection: a review of barriers and ways forward"
 * jj

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953607001499?via%3Dihub


 * "Meta-analysis of stigma and mental health"
 * jj

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Institutions that have long been in power maintain that power in various ways. One of the more subtle yet insidious ways is by taking control of the language that is used to describe and discuss the lives of marginalized peoples. If such an institution is successful, then they have managed to effectively take the intangible (i.e. words, rhetoric) and turn them into real substantive forces that affect the way these groups are seen and what the majority population thinks they deserve and should be allowed. By using language as a weapon one is able to impose their own will onto another. In this situation, we have the example of how post-colonial religious institutions are given the power to define the vocabulary of what is 'unnatural' and 'wrong', thereby leading people to believe that only those that live 'naturally' deserve certain human rights, respect, and dignity.

"The reversal on Gay Rights in India" and "Homosexuality and India"


 * Started with British Colonial Gov, using Victorian morality to punish non-procreative sex


 * Challenged by the Naz Foundation (HIV/AIDS/sexual health NGO (they health but thinking out of the box of how far health needs to be thought of. One argument was that it hindered their efforts)), the law (377) was decided to be in violation of the the constitution by the Delhi High Court in 2009
 * Faith based groups appealed High Court decision and Supreme Court overturned High Court's decision on dec 11, 2013, to dismay of human rights groups domestic and international


 * 2014 India Supreme Court reinstated Section 377 prohibiting "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" which is interpreted and used to ban gay sex. Punishable by fines and imprisonment.
 * left it up to parliament
 * Naz Foundation and Government India have appealed decision to review faults of the law
 * those that had become open about their sexuality following high court's decision put at risk or persecution and prosecution when the supreme court again criminalized gay sex. Police have been known to blackmail the queer identified.
 * No longer considered or treated as pathology since the 70's as it is has been shown homosexuality does not cause any objective dysfunction physically or psychologically. Now considered normal variant of sexuality and much of the hardship seen in these populations due to the realities of living in a heteronormative (heterosexism) society that considers their orientation less than ideal even if tolerable.
 * The stigma is partially why it is so difficult to accurately document its prevalence.
 * A universal definition of homosexuality also isn't reasonable to expect across cultures and within communities. Discrepancies also between identity and practice
 * Indian Journal of Psychiatry acknowledges a great lack of systematic research psychiatric literature into homosexuality, necessary to better understand the complex, multi-level issues they face with their multi-faceted identities, like anyone else, so that they can be approached and aided by health professionals with competence, greater acceptance, and a greater understanding of the social and personal nuance

"State homophobia? India's shifting UN positions on LGBTQ issues"


 * Facing both national and global pressures
 * Return to power of Hindu Nationalist BJP with some ani-LGBT policy goals that some queer international relations scholars see as a 'state homophobia' meant to distract from the social tensions that come with globalization and economic liberation
 * Contrarily, what some diplomats may see as a state's 'homophobia' may also be a state's skepticism of toward possible structural adjustment programs and their more negative implications where global institutions like World Bank and IMF promote self as progressive enforcers that offer simplistic 'common sense' stance of homophobia being a cultural disposition that could be alleviated with resource support or sanctions while disregarding their role in possibly fostering conditions that initiate homophobic moral panics.
 * On the other hand, some would say that the fragmented bureaucratic and political state of India's democracy would not make it easy to conclude that the State acts as a unitary intentional actor both in foreign policy and sexual orientation and identity issues
 * In support of India's sovereignty and autonomy, some UN Indian diplomats may act against LGBT human rights projects that could be seen as resisting the extent of western imperialism in step with other UN groups that would do the same
 * But as they do not entirely identify with this camp either, it is argued again to be less of a thought out strategy and more of fumbling reactions that lack clear leadership
 * Some queer IR theorists seeing regulation of sexuality as more purposeful, premeditated and intentional while others, like Puri, would say that the state is to messy and incoherent and its more so a reaction to the subjectivity.
 * other parties, like the Indian National Congress party (the only one with a clear official position opposed to 377 and the criminalization of homosexuality), holding diff positions than the BJP
 * Foreign policy as 'territorializing' and 'state building'. Finding that which is foreign both with apprehension and intrigue. (Abraham)
 * Must manage the domestic social boundaries while finding an identity as a rising power in the heterogeneity of the international space.
 * "Sovereignty and sexuality are entwined with one another" (Weber)
 * how can the state use sexuality or how can it stop the citizenry from using it when it poses a threat (HIV and criminalizing to stop argument vs Naz argument of criminalizing makes it harder to stop)

"Queer Rights and the Triangulation of..."


 * "homocolonialist" (Rahman) The west judging which states may be considered 'normal' and which can be considered 'pathological' based on how the west decides the treat their LGBT population. Suggesting that the way these things are framed on the global scale matters and that resistance to seeing LGBT rights as human rights might have more to do with resisting the moralistic stance of the US and the West than resisting the merit of the rights themselves. Especially when the West fails to meet their own standards that they mean to impose.
 * "Pink-testing"
 * Homocolonialism provokes those states considered pathological and so logically they resist, further reinforcing the West's view of them and their resistance as being intrinsic to their "Other" status, other opposed to modernity.
 * One view is traditionalism vs progress but author wants us to look at it with greater complexity
 * not as simple as they lack what we have being, economic freedom and wealth, democracy and secularism (speaking specifically in the context of what Muslim countries are considered to lack)
 * the west as only recently and inconsistently counted it as a marker for progress. Could be neocolonial tactic of "Western exceptionalism". The others that are considered to "lag behind" the west (straight out of the discussion of countries we call 'developed' and 'developing')
 * Sexuality considered on the spectrum 'between West and East' where the east is resists modernity which has positive connotation in this context. Queer rights are not just in the space of the west but are considered to be present only because of conditions thought exclusive to and originating from the West (this ignores the hard fought struggle for queer rights in the West)
 * "Not to denounce or abandon the advantages Western forms of society have had in terms of progressing sexual liberation, but it is to ask whether the assumptions of exporting or diffusing that model can really deliver effective sexual freedom within Muslim minority populations or majority cultures when the logic of modernization itself is based wholly on western experience... Modernization is based on economic development, secularization, and democratic governance as the precursors to sexual diversity and, thus, would imply that it is logically pointless to attempt to impose queer rights on countries that have not yet "modernized" enough." --- yet still queer rights are used as the 'test' for other countries whether or not they have undergone the process of 'modernity' described previously.
 * true that human rights should not wait, but if the struggle is to continue it must be seen from the local/regional context
 * in context of Islam, don't leave secularist arguments where it is appropriate and works, but expand the possibility to accommodate religion if it would create and expand spaces of intersection of religious and queer identity, while still in the framework of balancing cultural rights with individual rights (ex. against discrimination).

"Public koti and private love: Section 377, religion, perversity and lived desire"


 * Kotis/Janas outside


 * 12 Dec, 2013 final verdict of Indian Supreme Court in Naz Foundation vs Suresh Kumar
 * Argued that it comes up against "the emergence of the rights-bearing homosexual (citizen) by deploying religious notions of unnaturality, sin and perversity"
 * Section 377 as having many interpretations in its legal history both pre and post colonial
 * Starting with it being a way to control and police the colonial subject that was seen as perverse in 1860
 * keeping to what is natural
 * Carnality as criminal with penetration being enough to fall under this punishable ‘carnal intercourse’, another way to say non-procreative sex (anal sex, oral sex, other)
 * Shift from redistributive politics to individual rights alongside the liberalization of the Indian economy in the late 80’s
 * Those like baba ramdev (religious interpreter) that would say that homosexuality is western (not national), irreligious (not hindu/national)

Section 377 and the Myth of Heterosexuality


 * 'anti-sodomy' law is what it is seen as, where the natural is involuntary 'the divine default' (always moral and therefore not criminal) and the unnatural a violation to that default, the sodomite, the deviant is criminalized because they choose to violate
 * then with advent of vocabulary including the 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual', homosexual seen as an unnatural anomaly that was naturally occuring. What was abnormal became unnatural and still seen as something to rectify -- meaningless, hedonistic
 * another that has cited that it hurts public health efforts
 * "When everything associated with homosexuality is treated as bent, queer, repugnant, the whole gay and lesbian community is marked with deviance and perversity The result is that a significant group of the population is, because of its sexual non-conformity, persecuted, marginalized and turned in on itself"

"Sexual States: Governance and ..."


 * states are deeply subjective entities concerned with the definitions and regulation of normal and 'not normal' sexuality, especially for more vulnerable and more easily controlled populations
 * also about policing others, that some would say show the state to be 'divided' or not unified
 * the regulation of sexuality's definition and practice is one way to discursively produce the idea of "the state", suggesting its necessary and indespensable presence to maintain order and unification
 * sexuality seen as a danger (since it impacts states (call to abortion bands and the reach of governments and the underlying subconscious fears of a state in flux - less white)(forcing the runaway need from the social discursive space to the political as it is intended to be challenged in Supreme Court)) and way to affirm and ensure the role and presence of the state
 * "governing sexuality helps account for the idea and inevitability of states" The regulation is justified because it is the mechanisms through which states come to be and expand.
 * "the state as culturally and historically produced and reliant on active fashioning through ideas and practices, giving it the illusion of being monolithic, coherent, rational, permanent, and irrefutably 'there'"
 * 377 not the only law and not all that often enforced, others at play that are more easily enforced practically

"Disgust or Equality..."


 * 377 makes stopping HIV more difficult from a public health perspective and the argument that the law would deter same sex acts and by extension does not have evidence and there is actually plenty of evidence for the opposite -- from Naz case
 * 377 has led to violence of gay men and low self esteem -- from Naz case
 * high court argued that 377's classification is based on "disgust of a particular social group" making it both arbitrary and unreasonable
 * almost 30% hijras HIV+, they called a "criminal tribe" by the British in 1871. 377 gives that distinction to all MSM, argues the court according to author
 * Naz case highlights the argument that discrimination against gays and lesbians is one made out of projective 'disgust', seen as fear of contamination that is associated with the model set by untouchability



Sector
Find another review article that discusses, in detail, the obstacles of treatment adherence on a global scale; be it the lingering stigma, the ignorance or misinformation surrounding sexual health, or being in a relationship with an imbalance in power dynamics. Add to article where it discusses about important of knowing your status (90-90-90) (part of what my org does so also look at Fraser approach, is this offering resources? Power through information?). At what point is it that enough of the population know or are adhering to treatment that we consider the rest of the population generally safe (a sort of herd immunity)? What role is the government taking here in documenting and building off of this data?

"Meta-analysis of health and demographic correlates of stigma towards people living with HIV"


 * The studies from the analysis found a consistent relationship between HIV-related stigma and social/physical health. A negative correlation was exhibited for both
 * less social support, poorer mental and physical health, stress, loneliness, PTSD, despair, depression, anxiety
 * HIV stigma associated with less HIV testing and lower knowledge of risk reduction, delayed diagnosis
 * perceived, enacted, internalized, symbolic and instrumental forms of stigma
 * PLHIV seen as more responsible for health status
 * Interventions to reduce stigma and its burden should be introduced on multiple levels
 * structural legal interventions to protect from discrimination
 * economic interventions ensuring disability insurance and higher access to employment to counteract poverty traps
 * combining physical and mental assessment by practitioners with provisions of social support included in treatments
 * promoting practitioner competence, nonjudgment, confidentiality
 * in public, campaigns the educate and reduce fear of HIV contraction and champion compassion
 * Capacity building of PLHIV, leadership roles, and other positions that would make their voices heard while serving as an example of PLHIV being a positive community presence

"Beyond viral suppression of HIV – the new quality of life frontier"


 * 90-90-90 does well to reduce transmission but another '90' is needed to address quality of life after viral suppression
 * addresses this on two fronts, self-perceived quality (remains low among virally suppressed PLHIV) of life and comorbidities (more at risk from certain treatments or severe immunosuppression)
 * Non-communicable diseases, poor mental health, discrimination/stigma, financial stress, fear of passing virus to another, symptoms of treatment, insomnia, fatigue, and poor pain management all recognized as being detrimental to quality of life for PLHIV
 * Call to develop new quality of life target and guidance for metrics to track this progress
 * True that some countries might have limited resources to consider a fourth 90, but that is not to say that it is any less important or significant for the wellbeing of the virally suppressed and those that can afford to adopt this 90 may serve as a model for other nations to follow suit
 * eliminate late diagnosis (and the complications that come with it)
 * People centered rather than disease centered health systems
 * what do individuals and communities need to make them better rather than what do I need to do to make the disease go away
 * not clear of what people centered should look like

"Health-related Quality of Life Assessment after Antiretroviral Therapy: A Review of the Literature"


 * comorbidities, side effects, symptoms all eaffect well being
 * ART helps HRQoL scores for PLHIV but still lower than general pop

"Health-related quality-of-life of people with HIV in the era of combination antiretroviral treatment: a cross-sectional comparison with the general population"


 * higher rate depression/anxiety
 * lower HRQoL scores in PLHIV vs general pop

"Treatment and care for injecting drug users with HIV infection: a review of barriers and ways forward"


 * Fear of registry, interrupted treatment with detention, patient harassment, being seen of less deserving of humanity and treatment, hidden inhibitive fees
 * less likely than other PLHIV to receive ART even in countries where they make up majority of PLHIV, seen as issue of morality more than medical disorder
 * peer support on clinics, provider competence and confidentiality

"Meta-analysis of stigma and mental health"


 * Stigma strong enough to show observable effect on mental health
 * on adjustment and growth
 * AIDS shown in studies to be the highest stigmatized among medical conditions and infectious disease

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'''The British Raj criminalised anal sex and oral sex (for both heterosexuals and homosexuals) under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which entered into force in 1861. This made it an offence for a person to voluntarily have "carnal intercourse against the order of nature."''' The law did effectively criminalize any non-procreative sex, but scholars have also argued that the original intention of Section 377 was to act as a means by which the British Raj could further police and control the body of the colonial subject. In colonial Victorian era morality, these subjects were seen as erotically perverse and in need of the imposition.

In 1884, a court in north India, ruling on the prosecution of a hijra, commented that a physical examination of the accused revealed she "had the marks of a habitual catamite" and commended the police's desire to "check these disgusting practices".[22] In 1871, the British labeled the hijra population as a "criminal tribe".

Human Rights Watch expressed concerns that the Supreme Court ruling would render same-sex couples and individuals that had become open about their sexuality following the High Court's ruling vulnerable to police harassment and blackmail, stating that "the Supreme Court's ruling is a disappointing setback to human dignity, and the basic rights to privacy and non-discrimination"

For a new section entitled 'Queer international relations and the Indian state'

The Indian Government faces both domestic and international pressures regarding the 'homosexual question'. Some Queer International Relations (IR) scholars have cited the Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) recent return to political power as detrimental for LGBT rights. The IR scholars argue that some of the anti-LGBT policy goals of the party are in part a result of 'state homophobia' that is meant to distract citizens from growing social tensions attributable to the onset of globalization and the rise of neoliberalism. Indian foreign policy specialists regard these policies as a typical part of 'territorializing' where a nation such as India finds itself in need of self-identification as a post-colonial prominent rising power in a heterogeneous international space. Other Queer IR specialists have recognized how "sovereignty and sexuality are entwined with one another". These scholars argue that the state in question exerts its power and justifies its regulation over sexuality because it is the mechanism by which it ensures its presence, inevitability, and expansion. The debate continues of whether strong anti-LGBT policies are a means by which the state asserts an appearance of a singular unified stance or whether the state is simply too divided and its leadership too decentralized for these policy shifts to be clearly planned or intentional. The Indian National Congress Party is the only party with a clear official position opposing Section 377, yet other congressional parties also fall somewhere on the spectrum of support for or opposition to the section. Indian diplomats, in support of Indian sovereignty, at times find themselves in opposition to their own state's jurisprudence in an effort to resist the 'homocolonialist', articulated as a form of Western neoimperialism. The 'homocolonialist' is identified as the US and other Western nations that use a form of 'Pink-testing' in order to judge other states as being either 'normal' or 'pathological' based on their own interpretations of 'modernity' and of how those states treat and view their LGBT populations. Scholars have suggested alternative approaches that support international queer populations while also recognizing the social, historical, and regional context of each country on which humanitarians focus their efforts.

Another concern has been voiced in this debate of queer international relations. Some Indian diplomats have expressed concern that what other diplomats may view as their 'intrinsic homophobia' is actually their reservations and skepticism that they reserve for the structural adjustment programs initiated by institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. They argue that these international institutions sometimes ignore their role in initiating homophobic moral panics.

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International relations regarding LGBT rights in India has also been shown to be a significant driver of policy shifts. These shifts and the reasoning behind them have proven to be a convoluted field for international scholarly debate.

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For a new section entitled 'Beyond Medical Management'

The preamble to the World Health Organization's Constitution defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Those living with HIV today are met with other challenges that go beyond the singular goal of lowering their viral load. A 2009 meta-analysis studying the correlates of HIV-stigma found that individuals living with higher stigma burden were more likely to have poorer physical and mental health. Insufficient social support and delayed diagnosis due to decreased frequency of HIV testing and knowledge of risk reduction were cited as some of the reasons. People living with HIV (PLHIV) have lower health related quality of life (HRQoL) scores than do the general population. The stigma of having HIV is often compounded with the stigma of identifying with the LGBTQ community or the stigma of being an injecting drug user (IDU) even though heterosexual sexual transmission accounts for 85% of all HIV-1 infections worldwide. AIDS has been cited as the most heavily stigmatized medical condition among infectious diseases. Part of the consequence of this stigma toward PLHIV is the belief that they are seen as responsible for their status and less deserving of treatment.

A 2016 study sharing the WHO's definition of health critiques its 90-90-90 target goal, which is part of a larger strategy that aims to eliminate the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030, by arguing that it does not go far enough in ensuring the holistic health of PLHIV. The study suggests that maintenance of HIV and AIDS should go beyond the suppression of viral load and the prevention of opportunistic infection. It proposes adding a 'fourth 90' addressing a new 'quality of life' target that would focus specifically on increasing the quality of life for those that are able to suppress their viral load to undetectable levels along with new metrics to track the progress toward that target. This study serves as an example of the shifting paradigm in the dynamics of the health care system from being heavily 'disease-oriented' to more 'human-centered'. Though questions remain of what exactly a more 'human-centered' method of treatment looks like in practice, it generally aims to ask what kind of support, other than medical support, PLHIV need to cope with and eliminate HIV-related stigmas. Campaigns and marketing aimed at educating the general public in order to reduce any misplaced fears of HIV contraction is one example. Also encouraged is the capacity building and guided development of PLHIV into more leadership roles with the goal of having a greater representation of this population in decision making positions. Structural legal intervention has also been proposed, specifically referring to legal interventions to put in place protections against discrimination and improve access to employment opportunities. On the side of the practitioner, greater competence for the experience of people living with HIV is encouraged alongside the promotion of an environment of nonjudgment and confidentiality.

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The World Health Organization has defined health as more than the absence of disease. For this reason, many researchers have dedicated their work to better understanding the effects of HIV related stigma, the barriers it creates for treatment interventions, and the ways in which those barriers can be circumvented.