National AIDS Housing Coalition Policy Tool Kit www.nationalaidshousing.org/policytoolkit.htm Based on Research Presented at the Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Series Christine Campbell 2010 HIV Research Catalyst Forum Baltimore, MD April 22, 2010
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Policy & practice implications of research findings
• Policy implication: HIV prevention and care strategies will not succeed without addressing structural barriers such as homelessness & housing instability
• Policy implication: housing for persons with HIV/AIDS is a sound health care investment
• Practice implication: housing status is likely the most important characteristic of each new client - the most significant determinant of each PLWHA’s health and risk outcomes
Summit IV policy action strategies• Implement a coordinated communication strategy to disseminate
the strong evidence base for housing as HIV prevention and health care;
• Increase opportunities for collaboration in the development, implementation and evaluation of effective housing programs and policies;
• Mainstream human rights in HIV/AIDS prevention and care strategies, including the basic human right to housing;
• Redefine appropriate housing for PLWHA as housing that is affordable, safe and accessible to all; and
• Engage in comprehensive planning that establishes norms, beginning with adoption of the International Declaration on Poverty, Housing Instability & HIV
• Move towards integrated cross-sector data systems to better target, deliver and evaluate housing resources;
• develop a deeper understanding of different models of housing, including the causal mechanisms at work in effective housing interventions;
• Broaden our understanding of the unique housing needs of special populations;
• Foster community based participatory research (CBPR) approaches;
• Increase opportunities for meta-analyses of HIV/AIDS housing needs and interventions to amplify the power of program data.
Office of National AIDS Policy consultation on housing and HIV/AIDS
Evidence-based recommendations:
• To reduce HIV incidence – recognize, support and fund housing as an evidence-based prevention strategy
• To improve health outcomes – acknowledge that housing is health care for PLWHA, with an immediate goal of 140,000 new units of housing by 2012
• To reduce HIV health disparities – adopt a public health approach to housing that removes barriers, targets housing assistance to those most vulnerable, and fosters cross-system “silo-busting” resource coordination to meet real need
Get Involved!
• Stay in touch with NAHC - www.nationalaidshousing.org
• Join the International AIDS Housing Roundtable - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iahr/
• Endorse the International Declaration on Poverty, Homelessness and HIV - http://nationalaidshousing.org/2008/07/endorseconference/
• Use the NAHC Policy Tool Kit to inform local policy & funding decisions http://www.nationalaidshousing.org/policytoolkit.htm
• Share your successes - let NAHC know how you use research findings to inform practice and policy
Register Now!
North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit V
June 2nd - 4th, 2010Toronto, Canada
Convened byThe National AIDS Housing Coalition
andThe Ontario HIV Treatment Network
in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
For more information and to register, visit http://www.hivhousingsummit.org/frmHome.aspx