Basu Ambar, Dutta Mohan J
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
Qual Health Res. 2008 Jan;18(1):106-19. doi: 10.1177/1049732307309373.
Studies predict that the number of HIV infections among commercial sex workers (CSWers) in India may rise to 3.93 million. Efforts have been made to stem the tide. But most campaigns have been designed to ensure condom compliance among CSWers by spreading awareness and increasing availability. Absent from the discursive space of such campaigns are the agency of CSWers and their ability to resist dominant social structures. The authors respond to this lacuna in health communication by foregrounding voices of CSWers participating in two HIV/AIDS interventions in India. Based on the culture-centered approach to health communication and subaltern studies theory, it examines data from two sites to analyze how communicative narratives of agency and resistance are enacted in the marginalized lives of sex workers.
研究预测，印度商业性工作者中的艾滋病毒感染人数可能增至393万。人们已努力遏制这一趋势。但大多数活动旨在通过提高认识和增加避孕套供应来确保商业性工作者使用避孕套。这些活动的话语空间中缺少商业性工作者的能动性及其抵抗主导社会结构的能力。作者通过突出参与印度两项艾滋病毒/艾滋病干预措施的商业性工作者的声音，来回应健康传播中的这一空白。基于以文化为中心的健康传播方法和庶民研究理论，该研究考察了来自两个地点的数据，以分析能动性和抵抗的传播叙事如何在性工作者的边缘生活中得以体现。
