The PSHP team is currently recruiting 200 – 300 people who have tested HIV negative in the past year. Participants’ results will be compared to our already established group of 600 people living with HIV/AIDS.
We are recruiting through testing sites, ASO’s, community organisations and clinics and asking our HIV positive participants, friends and colleagues to help us recruit through their HIV negative social networks.
This comparison group will help to provide more accurate estimates of the nature / strength of the housing stability and health relationships.
The Study: We want to find …

The HIV component of our work is “relatively simple,” says the SHARP Foundation Executive Director Floyd Visser. He explains that there are several other factors that make managing the disease difficult for SHARP’s residential clients, such as aging, co-infection with diseases like Hepatitis C, mental health, neurological issues, physical disability, and addiction…

The quest for housing is a road paved with lingo. To help smooth out some of the bumps in the road, we’ve put together a glossary of some of the terms that you may come across when searching for affordable housing.
Rent Geared to Income
Rent Geared to Income housing is when the cost of your rent is adjusted based on how much you earn. This means that if your income increases, your rent increases, but also if your income decreases, your rent decreases. Usually, the adjusted rent is …

Maxine Davis, Director of the Dr. Peter Foundation in Vancouver, BC describes the care of people with HIV/AIDS as “complex care,” because the often unstable lives of HIV positive individuals makes it very difficult for them to access or sustain treatment.
“As a health care system we haven’t figured out how to effectively connect and engage people in a sustained way with the treatment…It is because the profile of individuals who have yet to benefit from HIV treatment are individual’s whose lives are made very chaotic by mental illness and addiction,” …

HIV/AIDS and housing instability can often go hand in hand. The cost of treatment, combined with periods of illness and other issues, can make it difficult to make ends meet. Without support, the financial and physical burden of the disease can lead to housing insecurity and sometimes, homelessness. The recent 12-month findings of the Positive Spaces, Healthy Places project show that 42% of research participants…

Rooftops Canada and Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development. HIV, AIDS and Housing Issues. Ottawa and Toronto.

ABSTRACT: Together with the União de Movimento de Moradia em Alagoas (UMM, Brazil), National AIDS Housing Coalition (USA), Red Habitat (Bolivia) and CONGEH (Cameroon) Rooftops Canada hosted a networking event at the WUF 5, held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil titled” Housing, HIV and AIDS: Sharing Knowledge, Making Connections”…