HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh

Dr. Alak Paul is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at The University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He received his MSc from Dhaka University, Bangladesh in 1999 and PhD from University of Durham, UK in 2009. Being an empirical geographer, his research and teaching interest spans over public health; society and environment; disaster management etc. for last twenty years. Dr Paul gives emphasis on marginalized and stigmatized people to his studies using qualitative approach and looks at the everyday geographies of various vulnerable people where he establishes how place play a role in (re)shaping the life of people or environment. He has over 40 peer reviewed research publications in reputed journals along with seven book chapters and four authored and/or edited books to his credit.

• Chapter 1-HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: Present Research.- Chapter 2-'Lifeworlds’ of Marginalized People in HIV Discourse.- Chapter 3-Stigmatized People and Societal Prejudice.- Chapter 4-HIV Risk Behaviour, Consciousness and ‘Risk Coping’.- Chapter 5-Place, Mobility and Channelling of HIV Risk.- Chapter 6-Addressing HIV Issues: National Policy to Local Practice.- Chapter 7-Summary and Conclusion.