By Manasi Jiwrajka The case report HIV in India: the Jogini Culture presents a case of a 32 year old Jogini from rural Andhra Pradesh who is HIV positive. ‘Jogini’, ‘Devadasi’ or ‘Mathamma’ are terms used to describe a girl committed to theogamy, or in other words, who is ‘married’ to a deity when she […]
Month: June 2015
Socioeconomic Privation & Congenital Birth Defects – Cause or Coincidence?
By Kristian Dye This week I’m looking at two very sad cases of stillbirth in Cali, Colombia. When we think of disease caused by social circumstance we often imagine non-communicable diseases or infectious diseases, usually where poor living conditions loom large in the aetiology. When we consider the higher rates of genetic birth defects in […]