Project Parivartan is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to conduct research on implementing structural interventions among high-risk groups in India's six highest HIV prevalence states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Manipur, and Nagaland. The project's overall goal is to reduce HIV risk among high-risk populations through the analysis of structural interventions that focus on altering the context within which individuals engage in health behaviors or make health-related decisions.
The Parivartan team, led by Principal Investigator Kim M. Blankenship, CIRA's associate director and associate research scientist at the Yale School of Public Health, collaborates in this project with CARE, an international field relief and development organization. The team also works with other partners receiving support as part of the BMGF's Avahan: India AIDS Initiative to conduct structural analyses of HIV risk and assess structural interventions for HIV prevention.
