The Forensic Humanist
Forty years of frontline HIV work read like a case-file archive of modern India — law, stigma, and the body, chapter by chapter.
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Three ways into the same record.
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The Frontline of Intimacy
Sex, silence, and survival, told through the one doctor in the room who kept showing up when institutions didn't.
Grit-Lit for a Serious Subject
A narrative nonfiction record built for readers of medical humanism and investigative reportage, not just public-health readers.
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Dr. Ishwar Gilada is an Indian HIV clinician and public-health advocate. Infectious Intimacies is his narrative nonfiction record of sex, stigma, HIV, law, language, care, and human dignity.
Dr. Ishwar Gilada is an Indian HIV clinician and public-health advocate whose work has brought medicine, dignity, communication, and human rights into the same conversation. He raised an early public alarm about AIDS in India in 1985 and helped establish an HIV/AIDS clinic at Mumbai's JJ Hospital in 1986.
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- Raised an early public alarm about AIDS in India in 1985; helped establish an HIV/AIDS clinic at JJ Hospital in 1986
- Founder and continuing leader of People’s Health Organisation and Unison Medicare and Research Centre
- President Emeritus, AIDS Society of India; International AIDS Society Governing Council member for Asia and the Pacific
- Contributor to India’s 2021 National Guidelines for HIV Care and Treatment
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Interview themes
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- Why does India still struggle to speak plainly about sex education?
- What did early HIV/AIDS field work reveal about stigma, law, and public fear?
- How did outreach to truck drivers, prisons, and high-risk communities change your public-health language?
- What should younger doctors understand about sexual history, shame, and patient dignity?
- Why do stories sometimes teach public health better than official instructions?
Contact
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gilada@usa.net