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Research reports

• Navigating the swampy lowland: a framework for evaluating the effect of community mobilisation in female sex workers in Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative (3 July, 2012)

  Christine Galavotti, Tisha Wheeler, Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Niranjan Saggurti, Pradeep Narayanan, Usha Kiran, Gina Dallabetta
• Learning about scale, measurement and community mobilisation: reflections on the implementation of the Avahan HIV/AIDS initiative in India (3 September, 2012)

  Tisha Wheeler, Usha Kiran, Gina Dallabetta, Matangi Jayaram, Padma Chandrasekaran, Annie Tangri, Hari Menon, Sameer Kumta, Sema Sgaier, Aparajita Ramakrishnan, James Moore, Alkesh Wadhwani, Ashok Alexander
• Design of a Community Ownership and Preparedness Index: using data to inform the capacity development of community-based groups (24 July, 2012)

  Tom Thomas, Pradeep Narayanan, Tisha Wheeler, Usha Kiran, M J Joseph, T V Ramanathan
• Monitoring community mobilisation and organisational capacity among high-risk groups in a large-scale HIV prevention programme in India: selected findings using a Community Ownership and Preparedness Index (5 July, 2012)

  Pradeep Narayanan, K Moulasha, Tisha Wheeler, James Baer, Sowmyaa Bharadwaj, T V Ramanathan, Tom Thomas
• Personal, interpersonal and structural challenges to accessing HIV testing, treatment and care services among female sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgenders in Karnataka state, South India (11 April, 2012)

  Tara S H Beattie, Parinita Bhattacharjee, M Suresh, Shajy Isac, B M Ramesh, Stephen Moses
• Trends in condom use among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: the impact of a community mobilisation intervention (11 April, 2012)

  Jennifer Toller Erausquin, Monica Biradavolu, Elizabeth Reed, Rebekah Burroway, Kim M Blankenship
• Risk reduction and perceived collective efficacy and community support among female sex workers in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, India: the importance of context (3 July, 2012)

  Mohua Guha, Angela Baschieri, Shalini Bharat, Tarun Bhatnagar, Suvarna Sanjay Sane, Sheela V Godbole, Saravanamurthy P S, Mandar Keshav Mainkar, Joseph Williams, Martine Collumbien
• Mobilising community collectivisation among female sex workers to promote STI service utilisation from the government healthcare system in Andhra Pradesh, India (6 April, 2012)

  Prabhakar Parimi, Ram Manohar Mishra, Saroj Tucker, Niranjan Saggurti
• How effective is community mobilisation in HIV prevention among highly diverse sex workers in urban settings? The Aastha intervention experience in Mumbai and Thane districts, India (3 July, 2012)

  Sanjeev Singh Gaikwad, Amrita Bhende, Gaurav Nidhi, Niranjan Saggurti, Virupax Ranebennur
• Community mobilisation programme for female sex workers in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India: processes and their effects (3 September, 2012)

  J B R Chakravarthy, Shaju V Joseph, Pertti Pelto, Dolly Kovvali
• Community advocacy groups as a means to address the social environment of female sex workers: a case study in Andhra Pradesh, India (11 April, 2012)

  Swarup Punyam, Renuka Somanatha Pullikalu, Ram Manohar Mishra, Prashanth Sandri, Balakrishna Prasad Mutupuru, Suresh Babu Kokku, Prabhakar Parimi
• Structural stigma, sex work and HIV: contradictions and lessons learnt from a community-led structural intervention in southern India (15 June, 2012)

  Monica Rao Biradavolu, Kim M Blankenship, Asima Jena, Nimesh Dhungana