AIDS, Security & Conflict Initiative
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ASCI is a global research initiative to inform policy and programming by strengthening the evidence base and addressing critical gaps in knowledge across four thematic priorities:
- HIV/AIDS in uniformed services
- HIV/AIDS, humanitarian crises and post-conflict transitions
- HIV/AIDS and fragile states
- Gender and cross-cutting issues
Research Portfolio
ASCI’s research portfolio includes a wide variety of initiatives across the four thematic priorities, undertaken with 23 different research partners. ASCI has succeeded in attracting projects in a variety of regions, including some heretofore underrepresented in research. A wide variety of qualitative and quantitative research approaches also have been supported, including field-based assessments, literature reviews, macroeconomic and epidemiological modelling, meta-policy analyses and case studies.
HIV/AIDS in uniformed services
- Research Agenda
- Supported Projects
- Published Reports
- No. 1: "The Police and HIV/AIDS: A Literature Review"
- No. 2: "Current Trends and Issues in Research on HIV/AIDS and Police Forces in Africa"
- No. 3: "HIV/AIDS and the Central American Uniformed Services"
- No. 4: "The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Operational Efficacy of Military Forces"
- No. 8: "Russian Demography, Health and the Military: Current and Future Issues"
HIV/AIDS, humanitarian crises and post-conflict transitions
HIV/AIDS and fragile states
- Research Agenda
- Supported Projects
- Published Reports
- No. 5: "The Political Dimensions of Responses to HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia"
- No. 6: "Impact of HIV/AIDS on Governance in Manipur and Nagaland"
- No. 7: "HIV and State Failure: Is HIV a Security Risk?"
- No. 9: "State Fragility and AIDS in the South Pacific"
- No. 10: "Is HIV/AIDS a Threat to Security in Fragile States?"
- No. 11: "States of HIV Fragility: Capacity, Vulnerabilities, and Epidemic Evolution in Mozambique"
Gender and cross-cutting issues
Partners
ASCI has been convened by the Netherlands Institute of International Relations "Clingendael" and the Social Science Research Council with support from 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. More about ASCI...


