Priorities

Current research priorities include:

• social and economic impact studies;
• HIV/ AIDS and security;
• HIV/ AIDS and rural livelihoods;
• assessment of country and regional preparedness (see HIV/ AIDS In Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: meeting the challenge - facts and policy options);
• demographic impact studies;
• politics of national response strategies;
• transferability of anti-retroviral (ARV) roll-out provision;
• monitoring and evaluation of ARV provision in resource-poor environments;
• effectiveness of prevention strategies in resource-poor environments;
• development of novel methods for assessing epidemic impact costs; and
• transfer of research to policy.

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