Parinita Bhattacharjee

Parinita Bhattacharjee is the Senior Technical Advisor for the University of Manitoba, Canada, based in Nairobi, Kenya. In the last ten years she has been leading the University’s work in India with sex workers, scaling up HIV prevention interventions with sex workers in Karnataka, South India.

Sex work, violence and HIV: experience from rural Karnataka

In the final days of the CSW meeting in New York, arguments over the language to be used in the Outcome Document are continuing, with some States refusing to acknowledge the existence of intimate partner violence in spite of widespread scientific evidence and testimony from victims of violence.

By Parinita Bhattacharjee

/ 13 Mar 2013