Role of Indian public libraries to increase the awareness of the community on HIV/AIDS |
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| Authors: | Maitrayee Ghosh |
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| Institution: | S.P. College of Engineering, University of Mumbai, India maitraye@iitk.ac.in |
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| Abstract: | AbstractToday Indian society is at high risk. AIDS, the most devastating disease humankind has ever faced, has become a conflagration on the Indian subcontinent and nearly 5.134 million people in the country are estimated to be HIV-positive. There is a perceived need for public libraries to provide necessary information to make the community aware of the threat of HIV/AIDS. Today's challenge is to reinvent the public libraries to respond to community needs. This paper explores the avenues created by ICT-enabled networking processes in providing HIV/AIDS information to the unprivileged population in India. It concludes with a number of recommendations that are intended to address the core problems and thereby improve the overall situation. |
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| Keywords: | HIV/AIDS Public libraries India |
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