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Global Experts Meeting on 12th International Conference on
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HIV communication programme among long-distance truck workers in West Bengal - An
analysis of selected national highway in Bengal
Rajesh Das
University of Burdwan, India
West Bengal, the most important State in eastern India,
is a gateway of business and commerce for entire
eastern India along with Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
The State comprises of 3664 KM National Highway along
with 4300 Km long State Highway. Millions of trucks are
running everyday with their drivers, helpers and cleaners
from one District to another State. The truck workers spend
their life with a shabby, unhealthy environment within or
outside of truck, less physical proximity from their wife and
family or community, face several types of risks on road,
and willingly or unwillingly come across some conflicts and
contradictions with public other transports drivers or even
police. In these circumstances Female sex workers (FSWs)
and long distance truck drivers (LDTDs) are considered key
population at high risk for HIV transmission due to high
prevalence. The intersection of these mobile populations,
cover a multi clustered ‘risk –audiences group’, like truck
workers- themselves , their family members and wives,
female sex works even some other women in another states
who are accidentally becomes his friend or close associate.
At the same time the National Highways spread across the
remote hinter lands of villages. The adjacent rural community,
more specifically the women are one of the vulnerable HIV
risk community in this said transport ecology. Two major
issues will be analysed through this work-i) it will reveal a
perspective of a changing notion of communication paradigm
of HIV /AIDS awareness from its existing scientific extension
system to the transfer of socio-psychological information
on need based orientation for specific community and ii)
issues, ideas and scopes of applications of cultural proximity
and dialogic action in AIDS communication for truck workers
community onwards National Highway. Research problems
may be defined as - i) how to define the problem of HIV/
AIDS communication awareness campaign among a mobile
community- truck workers?
ii) To explore the nature of sex trade along a particular
transport route. In this study it will be explained the
notions of direct level biological (physical) contacts and the
vulnerabilities that exist between these two groups, i.e. truck
driversandprofessionalandcasualsexworkerswithregardsto
HIV/AIDS. This proposition will help to design to formulate an
agenda-setting; through an involvement of said stakeholders
(participation of vulnerable group/s) .Proposed study may
consider Health Belief Model and Theory of Planned Behavior
as Possible Theoretical Frameworks, along with McGuire’s
Hierarchy of Effects to gauge various stages of outcome. A
Mixed method design classification on AIDS awareness and
communication design will follow for the proposed study. It
means qualitative methods to develop quantitative measures
and qualitative methods to explain quantitative findings.
Focused group discussion, In-depth interview, Content and
coverage of AIDS campaign and coverage by leading media
and stratified clustered survey analysis would be the research
methodology for this work.
Speaker Biography
Rajesh Das has 15 years of teaching experience in PG level, specialization
in health communication, rural communication and international
communication; he has successfully presented around 60 no of research
papers in an international and national conference/ seminar. He also
published three edited volume along with 20 articles in journal or as
a chapter in an edited volume. He act as a research supervisor in two
consecutives projects by Indian Institute of Mass Communication, funded
by ICSSR, New Delhi and NCRI, Hyderabad, under Ministry of Human
Recourse Development, Govt of India. He also awarded as a principal
investigator in ICSSR -IMPRESS Major Research Project, funded byMinistry
of Human Recourse Development, Govt of India and also awarded as a
producer in International Documentary Film Festival by the Department of
Information and Culture, Govt of West Bengal.
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