Aids and maternity in India. From public health to social sciences perspectives. Emerging themes and debates.

This collective book - with contributions from Indian and French specialists - seeks to define and shape the role of the social sciences in studying HIV/AIDS transmission from the mother to the child in India. The prevention of this transmission is a priority of the Indian public health policy and of international organisations. This issue is explored here through the understanding of medical, public health and social sciences perspectives.

Based on the status of maternity and its behaviour - pregnancy, delivery and breast-feeding are routes of transmission - the understanding of this transmission and its prevention is built here on a progressive and multidisciplinary exploration of the issue.