Savina Ammassari

• Doctor of Philosophy
• UN Resident Coordinator, Gabon at United Nations Organization

Background & objectives: The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and the ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, the nodal agency for conducting HIV estimations in India, have been generating HIV estimates regularly since 2003. The objective of this study was to describe India's biennial HIV estimation 2017 process, data inputs, tool,...

Background: Hijra or transgender (H/TG) people are significantly affected by HIV in India. HIV prevalence among H/TG is the second highest after people who inject drugs. Effective interventions require understanding about various risk behaviors and associated factors for high prevalence. Objectives: This study analyzes the known risk behaviors a...

Estimating the sizes of key populations at risk for HIV is crucial for HIV prevention and treatment. We provide findings of population size estimates (PSE) of males who inject drugs (MWID) in Myanmar, provide an intuitive method for countries to extrapolate subnational estimates into national estimates and provide guidance on how to maximize the ut...

In India, while an overall reduction in HIV is achieved among most key populations, the continued higher prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) is an area of concern. This paper analyses unsafe injecting and sexual risk behaviours in male PWIDs according to HIV status and also examines the determinants of HIV infection in this high-risk g...

Background & objectives: Evidence-based planning has been the cornerstone of India's response to HIV/AIDS. Here we describe the process, method and tools used for generating the 2015 HIV estimates and provide a summary of the main results. Methods: Spectrum software supported by the UNAIDS was used to produce HIV estimates for India as a whole and...

Methods: A phased approach to HIV surveillance was adopted and implemented in Myanmar. In the first phase started in 1992, data were gathered through HSS to establish trends in prevalence while gradually expanding the number of sites, population groups and their sample sizes. In a second phase, behavioural components of surveillance were incorporat...

The issue of whether or not return migration produces any development impacts on the migrants' country of origin continues to raise the interest of policy-makers. Most empirical studies focus on the macro-level economic impacts of return. However, it has increasingly become apparent that socio-cultural and political impacts are important as well. U...

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In Section 1, the theoretical controversy within the economic theory of location is resumed. Here the basic questions are, whether spatially balanced or unbalanced development fosters a faster economic growth and, in either case, to what extent the whole system benefits in the long run. Thereafter, two major theories explaining the role of internal...

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