HIV and Conflict

A framework for understanding the linkages between HIV and conflict has been completed by Nancy Mock. We anticipate completion of a field planning tool for developing HIV strategies in conflict settings to be available in early fall

 

 

Presentation on HIV and Conflict

HIV/AIDS: a challenge to security sector
A presentation given at Global Health in Times of Crisis

Preventing and Coping with HIV/AIDS in Post-conflict Situations: Gender-Based Lessons
Tulane/ACCORD/USAID. Arlington, Payson Center for International Development & Technology Transfer, Tulane University. CERTI Project New Orleans, Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer, Tulane University, December 2000 (Draft Working Paper).
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HIV Prevention and Behavior Change in International Military Populations - Training Module 7: HIV Prevention in Crisis Settings. Civil-Military Alliance, Geneva. Civil-Military Alliance. New Orleans, CERTI Project, Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer, Tulane University, New Orleans, March 2001
Executive Summary  (*.htm)

HIV and Conflict: A double emergency
Save the Children

AIDS in the Military
UNAIDS

HIV/Military
Documents from UNAIDS under the subject heading

US Military HIV Research Program

DoD HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
Mission: to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS among African Military personnel in selected African countries

HIV/AIDS & Conflict Resources
USAID

Civil Military Collaboration
Family Health International

HIV/AIDS Mitigation: Using What We Already Know
Patricia Bonnard, Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project
Technical Note No. 5 October 2002

U.N. peackeeping : United Nations faces challenges in responding to the impact of HIV/AIDS on peacekeeping operations
This GAO report (1) analyzes U.N. policies and guidance on the use and deployment of peacekeepers with HIV; (2) examines the data available on HIV/AIDS prevalence rates among peacekeepers; (3) assesses U.N. actions to limit the spread of HIV/AIDS among peacekeepers; and (4) examines U.N. actions to limit the impact of HIV/AIDS on civilians affected by armed conflict, including groups that may come into contact with peacekeepers.
The U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations' (DPO) policies and guidance discourage the deployment of members of uniformed forces with HIV for a number of reasons, including the concern that peacekeepers could potentially become a source of HIV infection for local populations. The DPO's policy does not, however, preclude deployment of individuals with HIV.

AIDS and Violent Conflict in Africa
United States Institute for Peace, October 2001
This special report gives a synopsis of remarks from an expert panel on the nexus of AIDS and violent conflict in Africa. In addition to an overview of the prevalence of conflict and HIV infection in Africa, panelists discussed an "HIV-conflict continuum." The ends of this continuum encompass how HIV/AIDS contributes to conflict and how conflict creates conditions favorable to the spread of HIV/AIDS. The report concludes with policy recommendations, and a brief bibliography of further resources.

HIV/AIDS as a Security Issue
International Crisis Group, June 2001
This 42-page report discusses how AIDS creates insecurity along several different security dimensions, including personal, economic, communal, national and international. The report then goes on to include an expanded discussion of AIDS as both a contributor to international security problems, and as an inhibitor of international responses to insecurity such as peacebuilding exercises, and strategies to address the AIDS related insecurity issues

Plague Upon Plague: AIDS & Violent Conflict in Africa
United States Institute of Peace, May 8, 2001
This is a full transcript of symposium on the relationship between AIDS and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa. A webcast of the conference is also available at the website. The summary is available from USIP Special Report "AIDS and Violent Conflict in Africa" also listed in this bibliography.

Conflict Fuels HIV/AIDS Crisis
Graça Machel, IPS e-zine on Gender and Human Rights, 2001
Graça Machel, former Minister of Education in Mozambique, is a well-known activist on the rights of children, and has done extensive research on the impact of conflict on children.

 

 

 

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