International Efforts
Housing Works is a leader in the movement to incorporate housing into global efforts to prevent and treat AIDS. In 2008, we held the first-ever International AIDS Conference satellite meeting on AIDS and housing. We held another in 2010, and we plan to continue holding them at every International AIDS Conference.
Our other major international initiative is our work in Haiti. We have worked with Haitian activists living with AIDS since 2008. After the devastating 2010 earthquake, we provided emergency relief and care opened two much-needed permanent clinics. We also opened a permanent Housing Works office in Port-au-Prince with an ambitious advocacy agenda.
In collaboration with the grassroots AIDS advocacy coalition PHAP+, our Haiti office lobbies for the rights of sexual minorities; job-training programs for people with AIDS; funds for grassroots AIDS groups, and of course, housing for Haitians with HIV/AIDS. Without such efforts, reconstruction plans could marginalize—and possibly worsen—the conditions for Haitians living with HIV/AIDS.
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Addressing the UN, Haitian AIDS Activist Criticizes Its Neglect of Housing, Transgender Issues
In an emotional speech this afternoon at the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS, Haitian AIDS activist Esther Boucicault expressed her gratitude for international aid to Haiti while criticizing the world body’s short-sightedness on housing and transgender issues. To the dismay of AIDS advocates, the new UN Declaration on HIV/AIDS to …
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