Mobility, Sexuality and AIDS

Over the past two decades, population mobility has intensified and become more diverse, raising important questions concerning the health and well-being of people who are mobile as well as communities of origin and destination.

Felicity Thomas is a Research Fellow at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Active in the field of international development for over ten years, she has been involved in a number of research and action-based projects with refugees and asylum seekers living in sub-Saharan Africa and in the UK. Her research interests focus on the socio-economic and emotional impacts of HIV and AIDS, migrant health and well-being, and HIV treatment seeking and management. Mary Haour-Knipe has worked in the field of migration and HIV since 1989, leading a European Union working group assessing HIV prevention activities for migrants and travelers in Europe, evaluating HIV prevention programmes amongst migrant communities, and working as senior advisor on migration and HIV/AIDS, then on migration and health, at the International Organization for Migration. She has also served as an advisor on HIV-related migration issues for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Peter Aggleton is Professor of Education in the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education. University of London and Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo and the University of New South Wales. He is the author and editor of over thirty books and is internationally renowned for his on sexuality and HIV. He is the editor of the journal Culture, Health and Sexuality, senior editor of Global Public Health and associate editor of Health Education Research and AIDS Education and Prevention.