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Special supplement of Forced Migration Review (FMR) now online - HIV/AIDS, security and conflict: making the connections
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The AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI) undertook research to examine the connections between conflict and HIV/AIDS to gather evidence and advance analysis. This FMR special supplement presents a selection of ASCI case-studies alongside a number of other articles written by practitioners, policy makers and scholars. Pam Delargy of UNFPA and Jennifer Klot and Dana Huber of SSRC were Guest Editors for this special supplement. SSRC and UNAIDS funded its production and dissemination.
The English version of the supplement is online at http://www.fmreview.org/AIDS/
The French version of the supplement will be online in late October at http://www.migrationforcee.org/SIDA/
The special supplement is free of charge in print and online.
If you do not usually receive a print copy of FMR and would like to receive a copy of this supplement for your organisation, or multiple copies for distribution to partners and policy/decision-makers or for use at conferences/workshops, please contact the FMR editors, Marion Couldery & Maurice Herson, at fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk.
Articles:
Vulnerable mobile populations overlooked
By Leo Kenny, Manuel Carballo and Thobias Bergmann
Forced migration and HIV/AIDS in Asia: some observations
By Nafis Sadik
HIV/AIDS, security and conflict: new realities, new responses
By Alex de Waal, Jennifer F Klot, Manjari Mahajan, with Dana Huber, Georg Frerks and Souleymane M'Boup
HIV in emergencies - much achieved, much to do
By Paul Spiegel
HIV, refugees and conflict-affected populations in Asia
By Ann Burton
Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration: opportunities in post-conflict settings
By Priya Marwah, Pamela Delargy and Lara Tabac
Ex-combatants: entry points for HIV education in southern Sudan
By Anyieth M D'Awol
Challenges for antiretroviral provision in northern Uganda
By Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Gendered violence and HIV in Burundi
By Hakan Seckinelgin, Joseph Bigirumwami and Jill Morris
Post-conflict transition and HIV vulnerability
By Manuel Carballo, Calixte Clerisme, Benjamin Harris, Patrick Kayembe, Fadila Serdarevic and Alexandra Small
Understanding sexual violence, HIV/AIDS and conflict
By Judy El-Bushra
Mobility and power in HIV transmission
By Cathy Zimmerman, Charlotte Watts, Anna Foss and Mazeda Hossain
Addressing HIV and sex work in humanitarian settings
By Ann Burton, Jennifer Butler, Priya Marwah, Cecile Mazzacurati, Marian Schilperoord and Richard Steen
The price of liberation: migration and HIV/AIDS in China
By Shao Jing
Education: critical to HIV prevention and mitigation
By Marian Hodgkin and Marian Schilperoord
HIV/AIDS, security and conflict: What do we know? Where do we go from here?
By Pamela Delargy and Jennifer F Klot
ASCI Final Report: "HIV/AIDS, Security and Conflict: New Realities, New Responses" Released
Contact: Siovahn Walker
Tel: 718-517-3613
Email: walker@ssrc.org
AIDS and Security: New and Different Threats
ASCI Report Provides New Evidence, Proposes New Actions on Links Between Security, Conflict, Peacebuilding and HIV
A new report, titled "HIV/AIDS, Security and Conflict: New Realities, New Responses," provides evidence of the diverse threats HIV poses to international and national peace and security. In the ten years since, the UN Security Council drew attention to the deadly nexus linking HIV and security, there has been both alarmism and denial over these purported links. In its report, published today, the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI) provides evidence for policy-making. Its three-year research programme demonstrates that HIV has important impacts on security, just as security crises and security institutions can influence HIV incidence, but with good policy and appropriate programmes these dangers can be successfully overcome.
ASCI addresses ten specific ways in which peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian response efforts may be better attuned to the risks of HIV. Among them are the following:
ASCI urges new approaches to this global crisis, including greater attention to the links between violence against women, forced sex and the increased risk of HIV. The report also identifies the groups of men who control sex workers and sex trafficking as a "core group" for influencing rates of HIV transmission.
The new report suggests that the transition from war to peace can increase risks of HIV transmission as refugees go home, soldiers leave the army, and relief agencies wind down. ASCI urges that international donors provide funds to cover the gap in HIV services between relief and development, and that HIV prevention, treatment, care and support be integrated into disarmament and demobilization efforts.
In many countries, laws and law enforcement drive the AIDS epidemic underground by criminalizing injecting drug use, sex work or homosexuality - thereby ruling out proven HIV prevention methods such as needle exchange and the promotion of condom use. ASCI calls for a new international effort, involving lawmakers and law enforcement agencies, for HIV-sensitive laws and policing.
ASCI revisits the testing debate within the framework of a "Command Centered Approach" to HIV prevention within the military. The report looks into the possible advantages of placing responsibility for AIDS policy at the highest level of effectiveness and best practices in HIV prevention, treatment and care.
Souleymane M'Boup, ASCI co-Chair, a former military doctor and virologist who discovered HIV 2 says, 'the focus on HIV prevention has, understandably, been preoccupied with the biomedical science of HIV. This report intends to complement a growing body of social science research about the pandemic and our understanding of the political, economic and social factors driving it. Even if a vaccine were discovered today, the impacts of HIV/AIDS on families, societies, peace and security would continue to unfold for generations."
Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS, says, "These findings underscore the importance of aligning efforts to prevent sexual violence and HIV prevention - these connections have yet to be well established within the global context of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support."
Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, says, "The report of the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative is crucial. AIDS poses very specific challenges to fragile countries. This report helps us to implement programmes and policies that can successfully address the potential risks."
The result of three years of research, "HIV/AIDS, Security and Conflict: New Realities, New Responses" summarizes the findings of twenty-seven research studies (involving research partners in seventeen different countries) on HIV/AIDS and fragile states, uniformed services, humanitarian crises and post-conflict transitions.
A joint project of the Social Science Research Council (New York) and Clingendael Institute for International Relations (The Hague), ASCI's report is part of a global research initiative aimed at informing policy and programming by strengthening the evidence base and addressing critical gaps in knowledge in the fields of HIV/AIDS and security. Financial support for ASCI's work was provided by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Australian Agency for International Development, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNAIDS.
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