Policy Toolkit
This Tool Kit was developed by NAHC to help advocates inform national and local resource allocation, planning, and prevention and health care practice through the use of tools and strategies that employ research findings to demonstrate the link between housing and health for persons at risk of or living with HIV/AIDS.
Background
A growing body of research examines the relationship of housing status to HIV prevention and care. In 2005, The National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC) initiated the National Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit as a new forum for the presentation and discussion of research findings relevant to HIV/AIDS housing policy and practice, and the development of data-driven advocacy strategies.
Summit II, held in October 2006, brought together 160 researchers, policy experts, and housing providers and consumers, representing twenty-four states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian Provinces.
NAHC convened the Third National Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit in March 2008, in Baltimore, Maryland, in collaboration with the Department of Health, Behavior and Society of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For more information on the Housing Research Summit and to purchase Summit Series products, please visit our webpage.
Research findings presented at the Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Series:
Show that homelessness and unstable housing are strongly linked to…
Studies also show strong and consistent correlations between improved housing status and…
This Tool Kit was developed by NAHC to help advocates inform national and local resource allocation, planning, and prevention and health care practice through the use of tools and strategies that employ research findings to demonstrate the link between housing and health for persons at risk of or living with HIV/AIDS.
The Tool Kit webpage is divided into three main sections:
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