Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) – Established 2005
FOUR FRONT BURNER ISSUES: A Quick Overview
1.
Reauthorize and fully fund the
Ryan White CARE Act.
2.
Keep Medicaid strong for people
with HIV/AIDS and all other beneficiaries.
3.
Strengthen the global fight
against AIDS by fully funding the Global Fund and backing 100% debt
cancellation.
4.
Restore and revive effective HIV
Prevention worldwide based on the best science.
HOUSING
PROBLEMS:
When it comes to HIV/AIDS, housing is Health Care, and
housing is HIV Prevention. People with HIV and AIDS can't reliably manage or
improve their own health care if they're homeless or in unstable housing. And
people who are homeless are more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors,
including sex-for-shelter or sex-for-money transactions. Medically appropriate
and stable housing for all people living with HIV/AIDS will give other health
care interventions a chance to work.
Poverty, domestic abuse, and rape contribute to women
becoming homeless. HIV-positive women who lack safe and secure housing are less
able to make and keep health care appointments and to follow difficult
medication regimens and are at increased risk for infection.
And America's veterans are at particularly high risk for
homelessness and HIV infection, adding to our moral responsibility to ensure
funding and policies that end the twin crises of homelessness and AIDS.
SOLUTIONS:
Increase resources for AIDS housing
•
Stop the cuts and increase funding for the
“Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program at HUD; fully fund
McKinney-Vento, Housing Choice Vouchers and other HUD housing programs, protect
and extend Section 8 subsidies
•
Establish a National Housing Trust Fund, a
dedicated source of funding to produce, rehabilitate or preserve 1.5 million
units of housing affordable to low-income people over the next 10 years
•
Increase incentives for state and local
funding for AIDS housing and operating subsidies
Increase services for people who experience long-term or
“chronic” homelessness
•
Authorize and fund a new program to link
those experiencing chronic homelessness with permanent housing and mainstream
services that will help to stabilize their lives and advance their recovery and
move to self-sufficiency, with specific funds for people with HIV/AIDS
•
Match funding from states and local
governments, fund multi-year renewable grants based on sound performance
criteria; employ a simple application process compatible with existing housing
resources; promote coordination between and among federal agencies, state
agencies and local private and public organizations
Ensure housing and services for those returning from
incarceration
•
Fund a range of comprehensive services to
assist persons returning from jails and prisons to communities nationwide,
including expanding Department of Justice grant programs
•
Develop expanded safe housing for women with
low incomes and women who are threatened with domestic or sexual abuse
BENEFITS & OUTCOMES
•
Better health care for people living with
HIV/AIDS and reduced expenses on homeless shelters, emergency housing, and
extraordinary medical costs
•
Less HIV infections due to improved HIV
prevention among formerly homeless people
•
Stronger communities and more stable families
•
Improved health and reduced homelessness for
women
•
Reduced HIV infections and reduced public
costs for HIV-related health care
•
Living conditions for women that improve
health outcomes
