Participation as a Health Communication Strategy in HIV/AIDS Intervention Projects: an Examination of a Project Targeting Commercial Sex Workers in India

@article{Dasgupta2019ParticipationAA,
  title={Participation as a Health Communication Strategy in HIV/AIDS Intervention Projects: an Examination of a Project Targeting Commercial Sex Workers in India},
  author={Satarupa Dasgupta},
  journal={Atlantic Journal of Communication},
  year={2019},
  volume={27},
  pages={139 - 151}
}
  • S. Dasgupta
  • Published 26 February 2019
  • Sociology
  • Atlantic Journal of Communication
ABSTRACT This article examines how participation frames health communication strategies in the Sonagachi Project. The current research, which involves a study of 37 commercial female sex workers in a red-light district of India, investigates how the participation of target audiences in the enunciation of health problems in HIV/AIDS intervention projects engenders change. The study analyzed how a participatory framework in an HIV/sexually transmitted infection intervention project among sex… 
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