HIV/AIDS in India: A Public Health Approach on Contemporary Trends

Sibnath Deb is the Faculty Member in the department of Applied Psychology, Calcutta University, Kolkata. Also, he is a Visiting Faculty at ISPCAN Global the School of Management, Tripura University. He underwent an intensive course on HIV/AIDS and Qualitative Research in the Community health research Training Unit, the university of Western Australia in 1994. Dr. Deb has authored a book, entitled Contemporary Social Problems in India, and has edited two books viz. Child Abuse and Neglect: South Asian Scenario and Child Protection: Socio-legal Measures in India. Dr. Deb has published 50 research papers in national and international journals of repute. In his 16 years’ research and academic career he has handled more than 35 large-scale qualitative and quantitative studies on various issues like reproductive and child health including HIV?AIDS, child maltreatment, social and clinical psychology in addition to evaluation of different intervention, programmes for national and international agencies. He is Hony. Founder Secretary of MIDSW, an NGO, Council member of the International Society for Prevention of child Abuse and neglect, USA, and founder Vice President of the Indian national Society for Prevention of child Abuse and neglect. Currently he is associated with ITPI (Training) and ICMR Task Force research Project as well.