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

When Ashok Alexander left a high-profile corporate job to head Avahan, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's programme to stem the growth of HIV 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 place where women sold themselves for 50 rupees and 14-year-olds injected drugs. It was the shadow world of transgenders and of young gay men in a country that still criminalised 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 10 years Alexander built Avahan, it grew to become one of the most successful HIV prevention programmes in the world. Based on his experiences, this book brings alive the world of people most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, and some of the unlikely heroes among them.

ISBN:	9788193876701
Publisher:	Juggernaut
Imprint:	Juggernaut
Published date:	30 Nov 2018
DEWEY:	362.196979200954
DEWEY edition:	23
Number of pages:	312
Weight:	-1g

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