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

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

Ashok Alexander



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ISBN: 9788193876701

Author: Ashok Alexander

Language: English

Binding: Hardback

Publisher: Juggernaut Books

Imprint: Juggernaut

Published Year: 30-Nov-2018

Pages: 320

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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