AIDInc. initiates and supports health and social research which provide policymakers with the evidence base needed to drive policy development.

Consultants and associates at AIDInc. have used their skills and experience to apply quantitative and qualitative research methods to the identification of policy barriers to programme successes, the analysis of planned or draft policies related aspects of health and social problems and the evaluation of the efficacy of existing policies, making recommendations for their modification.

As dedicated researchers who have worked in the field for over a decade we are acutely aware of the importance of translating research into policy and as such we have been committed to building a strong team of policy experts within the health and social policy division.

Our focus areas to date have been:

• Assessment of the health reform policies in the Caribbean islands and analysis of health financing policies and options for creating sustainable health care provision
  
• Development of institutional and national policies for disease control
  
• Assessment of policy needs for mitigating HIV/AIDS stigma
  and discrimination in the community and the workplace – the role of policy in reducing stigma
  
• HIV/AIDS and confidentiality: The role of policies in protecting patient, provider, and sexual partners.
  
• Identification of policy barriers to accessing care: minors and health care
  
• Violence against women
  
• Discrimination of MSM and other vulnerable and high risk groups