Charles King Gives Historic Speech at First White House Meeting on Homelessness and AIDS
On Thursday, December 17, the White House held its first-ever meeting on homelessness and AIDS. Advocates, people with AIDS, researchers, and government officials from the White House and Housing and Urban Development discussed the intersection of housing and the AIDS crisis. Housing Works President and CEO Charles King delivered an impassioned speech, entitled “A Few Things That Are Certain,” which connected the dots between housing and ending AIDS:
“Very simply, prevention interventions that focus on changing the behavior of individuals are doomed to fail if we deny these individuals access to a proven, cost-effective prevention and health care intervention—a safe and secure place to live. The research—and there is a lot of it now—clearly shows that persons who lack stable housing are far more likely to become HIV infected, will have limited access to care once they are infected, and will live less healthy and shorter lives than persons just like them who are fortunate enough to have a home.”
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Posted on December 28, 2009 at 9:59 pm
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