Alcohol, Sexual violence and HIV/AIDS in High Prevalence States of India

Though India is traditionally perceived to be a 'dry' culture, but alcohol use in some form has always existed in the country and alcohol is an important dimension in sexual violence. Present article tries to study the role of alcohol in contribution sexual risk in different settings and populations across the HIV/AIDS high prevalence state. Data for this study was obtained from the National Family Health Survey, conducted in 2005-06 for 5 High Prevalence states. It was found that women those husband drink alcohol has reported more (2.37 percent) genital sore/ulcer in last 12 months compared to those women (1.39 percent) husband doesn’t drink alcohol in high HIV prevalence states. The analysis proved that alcohol consumption of partner has the high risk (0.99 percent) of getting HIV/AIDS compare to the respondent (0.44 percent) those husbands don’t drink alcohol.