Housing Crisis

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Housing Crisis Connection

• Step 3 Housing
• Whats the Connection?
• Permanent housing can help prevent the spread of
  HIV/AIDS.
• Lack of permanent housing is a major problem for
  people living with HIV/AIDS. 
• Recent studies show that the cost of medical care
  for a person with HIV/AIDS far outweighs the cost
  of basic housing.
• Housing is health care.
• Proper design for housing.

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Housing Crisis Connection

• Stable and healthy lives require a supportive
  environment.
• Housing helps stabilize lives and provides both
  psychological and medical support.
• There is a great need for permanent housing, for
  both individuals and entire communities.
• Permanent housing affects the prevention and
  treatment of the disease.
• It removes individuals from the physical
  environments where they are most likely to spread
  or contract the disease.
• It increases access to proper health care,
  treatment, and education about the disease.
• It provides psychological support.
• Housing influences a successful treatment.
• Once treatment has been accessed and initiated,
  housing helps regulate a lifestyle which is
  necessary to ensure that a person continues the
  prescribed ART treatment and avoids returning to
  harmful environments.

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Housing Crisis Connection

• By reexamining the relationship between
  buildings, infrastructure and epidemiology, we
  can design solutions to combat issues of public
  health which are specific and responsive to the
  needs of individual communities.
• The ARCHIVE Institute seeks to combat the
  HIV/AIDS pandemic through architectural solutions
  at community wide basis in the planning, design
  and construction of the proper facilities.

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Picture for Change - 15 minutes
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Global HIV/AIDS

• Young people are assets in the fight against
  HIV/AIDS, and their voices must be heard. When
  young people are able to identify the main issues
  of concern to them and are empowered to develop,
  implement and manage youth-owned strategies to
  address those issues real change will take
  place
• Alex McClelland, young person living with
  aids, and youth program coordinator, XVI
  International Aids Conference

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Other Global Initiatives

• International HIV/Aids Alliance
  www.aidsalliance.org
• ? They too believe art can fight AIDS.
• Art against AIDS
• ? Care www.care.org/campaigns/hiv
• ? United Nations program on HIV/AIDS
• www.unaids.org
• ? Unite for Children, Unite against Aids
  www.uniteforchildren.org
• ? visit their youth site here
• ? News resources for children/youth
• ? read, listen, speak stay informed about
  HIV/AIDS www.unicef.org/voy

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Steps to Take
? Get Connected share, discuss, meet, learn
youthagainstaids.blogspot.com ? Take Action ?
Start Now! Success will only be achieved if we
create it.
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Poster competition

• Here are some questions you might want to use as
  a guide for your poster submission artwork.  Keep
  in mind that you may use these questions as
  inspiration or raise your own concerns about
  these themes.    ?Where does AIDS come from
  and how can humans overcome it? Who will inherit
  the AIDS problem? How can we best respond to the
  spread of HIV and AIDS? How does AIDS affect our
  society?        ?How can we educate people
  about AIDS and communicate with them about the
  epidemic? How can we use technology to alleviate
  the global problem of AIDS?        ?What are
  some of the lessons we have learned from the
  spread of the AIDS epidemic? What do
  communities/villages affected by AIDS need most?
  Who should be in charge of relieving the AIDS
  problem?
•         ? What are some of the ways in which our
  homes and housing in general are affected by the
  disease? How can our homes and housing in general
  help treat or help control the spread of
  HIV/AIDS?

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Competition Partners