AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY IN ASSAM- AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Public health is increasingly becoming a multi-sector and multilevel responsibility, and there is a need for a comprehensive community and spatial planning to integrate health considerations and develop a sustainable public health policy. In the present situation a large number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Palakkad, so a suitable multivariate analysis is required to simplify the dimensional relationship among the variables and to identify the major determinant factors, spatial disparity of the People living with HIV/AIDS infection. The present study aims to analyze the spatial distribution people living with HIV/AIDS and their relationship between social, cultural, psychological and health condition. Which are altogether considered as the very important aspects for the development and planning for the study area. Nearly 12.31% of the total variance is significantly loaded with 22 variables. The factor loading positive values of 11 variables lies between (0.93 to 0.45) eigen values in both the directions. MLHA Partner prevent condom usage with sexual intercourse (0.93), MLHA got Moral support from NGO (0.76), HIV/AIDS transferred to Mother to Child (0.62), FLHA separated from family (0.59),MLHA Married (0.59), High school level of education (0.59) MLHA suffered fever(0.56) MLHA reveal test to partner(0.56) FLHA got HIV/AIDS through Sexual contact (0.48) MLHA suffered TB (0.45) FLHA in the age group of 30–39 (0.45). The 11 variables with negative loadings are added with Partner prevents condom usage (−0.94) MLHA protect HIV themselves-0.93, MLHA receiving nutritious food-0.82, MLHA got HIV through Drug Abuse-0.68, FLHA isolated-0.61, FLHA have anal intercourse-0.55, MLHA have the age group of 30–39(−0.49), FLHA got HIV from Mother to Child transmission-0.48, No of Beds in the hospitals-0.45 MLHA collect the sex knowledge from Friends-0.45 MLHA living as single-0.44. Hence it is premised that PLHA and their sexual knowledge and awareness is the major route of the HIV/AIDS infection in Palakkad district in Kerala.