ABSTRACT
Contemporary debate about gender, sexuality, sexual behaviour and sexual health, and the implications of this debate for the development of appropriate and effective HIV prevention programmes, have become issues of great urgency for India. For if we do not have a sound appreciation of the central issues in this debate, if we cannot clearly define the parameters of what we mean by the term sexuality, and if we do not fully understand the cultural frameworks within which sexual behaviour occurs, we will not be able to develop effective interventions to decrease present rates of infection.
