A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love,Leadership,and Courage from India's Sex Workers - Couverture rigide

Alexander, Ashok

 
9788193876701: A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love,Leadership,and Courage from India's Sex Workers
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 8193876709 ISBN 13 : 9788193876701
Editeur : Juggernaut Publication, 2018

Synopsis

When Ashok Alexander left a high-profile corporate job to head Avahan, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation s programme to stem the growth of the HIV epidemic in India, he was plunged into an India far removed from the comfort zones he had lived and worked in all his life. It was a grinding place where women sold themselves for fifty rupees and fourteen-year-olds injected drugs. It was the shadow world of transgenders and of young gay men in a country that still criminalized same-sex love. It was the strange world of truckers, lonely journeymen along forgotten highways. Above all, it was a place where valiant battles for a barely decent life were being fought every day. During the ten years Alexander built Avahan, it grew to become one of the largest and most successful HIV prevention programmes in the world, credited with averting over 6.5 lakh new infections. Based on his experiences, A Stranger Truth compellingly brings alive the world of people most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, and some of the unlikely heroes among them.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ashok Alexander spent seventeen years with McKinsey and Company in New York and India. In 2003, he left that firm as a senior partner to take up the building of an ambitious HIV/AIDS prevention programme in India for the Gates Foundation. That venture, Avahan, has been internationally acclaimed for its pivotal role in containing the HIV epidemic in India. Married, with two children, Ashok Alexander lives in New Delhi and nurtures his own NGO, the Antara Foundation, which works in the field of maternal and child health in rural Rajasthan. A Stranger Truth is his first book

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Éditeur
Juggernaut Publication
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
8193876709
ISBN 13 
9788193876701
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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