Social Inclusion
ISDS’s promoting social inclusion activities are to improve the capacity of CBOs of people living with HIV, men who have sex with men, drug users and sex workers within the Global Fund project, which ISDS has been implementing since the second half of 2011. The main purpose is to empower those groups to protect their rights, support them to participate more effectively into the national HIV prevention programs as well as social inclusion.
Internal and international migrants
Research Migration became one of the major areas of interest of ISDS since 2002 when the Insitute joined a regional team of institutions doing collaborative research on social protection in Asia, an initiative of The Ford Foundation. In this research, migrants have been addressed among those disadvantaged groups and needed better social protection. The research […]
People with disabilities
Research Starting from 2007, the Institute has inquired into a new area of research and advocacy on disability. With a grant from The Ford Foundation, ISDS undertook the first large scale survey on disability in Vietnam at high prevalence provinces. Amongst groups of people with disabilities (PWDs), people whose disabilities were likely caused by Agent […]
People living with HIV
Research ISDS’ works in this area started in 2002 with a ground-breaking research “Understanding HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in Vietnam”, collaborated with the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and funded by the USAID. The research is unique as it has traced the root causes of stigma and discrimination (S&D) from the discourse of […]