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BIG TEN
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Epstein, Steinberg and Cohen at the Housing Works Bookstore Café |
On Tuesday influential authors Helen Epstein (The Invisible Cure and Jonny Steinberg (Sizwe's Test) spoke to a packed house at the Housing Works Bookstore Café about what is hindering AIDS prevention and treatment efforts in Southern and Western Africa. The discussion, moderated by Jonathan Cohen of the Open Society Foundation, was one of the AIDS advocacy components of the Housing Works Bookstore's 10th anniversary celebration. For a list of upcoming 10th anniversary events click here.
Before the event got underway, Housing Works President and CEO Charles King took a moment to explain the role the bookstore played in Housing Works ability to provide services in Downtown Manhattan. The Housing Works Bookstore Café was founded ten years ago in conjunction with Housing Works' syringe exchange program on Crosby Street. “Crosby Street was the toilet of SoHo," King said, and neighbors complained about the needle exchange. King promised that "far from making Crosby Street worse, we would contribute to its gentrification." And he was prophetic. Today everyone from fashion glamazons to Housing Works’ clients to world-famous literati flock to the Bookstore’s chic Soho location. As Cohen noted, "I think every needle exchange throughout the world should have a bookstore attached."...
AIDS HOUSING GOES GLOBAL
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Housing for people with AIDS is necessary in every country |
When you're at the International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Mexico City in August, don't miss the "International Summit on Poverty, Homelessness and HIV/AIDS" satellite session: This first-of-its-kind meeting will create a strategy for addressing homelessness and poverty as significant barriers to fighting the AIDS epidemic.
The two-hour summit is organized by the National AIDS Housing Coalition, Housing Works and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network, with committee members from Thailand, China, Kenya, South Africa, the U.S. and Canada. Participants will work together to develop and present to the IAC a declaration demanding adequate housing as a fundamental human right and an essential element of effective HIV prevention and health care...
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