Articles by Moni Nag

Sex workers are the most vulnerable victims of HIV/AIDS. Yet few HIV/AIDS intervention projects among sex workers in India have been successful. The lessons to be drawn from the unique success of the Kolkata-based Sonagachi Project in controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS among sex workers, therefore, deserve the most careful consideration.

political leaders usually overreach themselves and start going into terminal decline. The projected rate of growth for 1996 is down to 2.3 per cent (the soothsayers foretell a resumption of 6 per cent growth for 1997-99), much below what is needed to get Peru back into its peak prosperity. The external debt situation still remains very threatening. And the narcotics issue will not go away while Washington is concerned Vladimiro Montesinos, a key security adviser to the president, has just been accused by a top narcotics trader on trial of taking bribes of 50,000 dollars per month to secure army protection to fly his cocaine cargo out of his airstrip. The charge has been denied, but less well known army chiefs in key localities are almost certain to be involved in the drugs business.

of Health Services A Case Study of Rural Kerala and West Bengal Moni Nag This paper assesses ana produces evidence in support of the hypothesis that an important factor that contributed to the easier accessibilify to and better utilisation of health facilities in rural Kerala compared to rural West Bengal was a higher degree of political awareness in rural Kerala at least up to the end of 1970s. A historical analysis of the caste organisations, peasant movements, and educational structure in the two states provides an under- standing of the difference in political awareness of the rural poor between the two states. The paper argues that the Indian political parties and trade unions should take a more active role by mobilising the masses not only around economic issues but also around social issues, e g, health, education "and women's rights.

Trends, Issues and Strategies Moni Nag Ninety-four per cent of the population in Asia (excluding Japan) lives in countries that have adopted an official policy to reduce population growth and have given support to family planning activities. The demographic trends and acceptance of contraceptives, however, vary considerably among these countries. China and Bangladesh stand at opposite poles in fertility and mortality indices as well as in a few socio-economic indices.