This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS.

Since the turn of the century international policy agenda on security have focused on HIV/AIDS only as a concern for national and international security, ignoring people’s particular experiences, vulnerabilities and needs in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Developing a gender-based framework for HIV/AIDS-conflict analysis, this book draws on research conducted in Burundi to understand the implications of post-conflict demobilization and reintegration policies on women and men and their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. By centring the argument on personal reflections, this work provides a critical alternative method to engage with conflict and HIV/AIDS, and a much richer understanding of the relationship between the two.

International Security, Conflict and Gender will be of interest to students and scholars of healthcare politics, security and governance.

• Cover 2
• Title 9
• Copyright 10
• Dedication 11
• Contents 13
• Acknowledgments 14
• Introduction 17
• 1 Context, conflict, and experiences 35
• 2 Gender relations 56
• 3 Gender relations in the conflict 74
• 4 HIV/AIDS in people’s lives 94
• 5 Discontent with reintegration 114
• 6 International expert knowledge and its production: the relationship between conflict and HIV/AIDS 133
• 7 People’s voices: questions of evidence and HIV/AIDS 153
• 8 Communities of policy and communities of everyday life 170