For more information

Published: 30 July 2010

NAT (National AIDS Trust), Housing and HIV. 2009. An overview of the impact housing has on the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV. Available at www.nat.org.uk.

Terrence Higgins Trust (www.tht.org.uk) can offer advice to people with HIV who have housing problems. Call 0845 1221 200.

Housing charity Shelter offers advice, information and publications about all aspects of housing. For more information call 0808 800 4444 or visit www.shelter.org.uk.

The Citizens Advice service (www.adviceguide.org.uk) can provide information on many of the issues raised in this section.

The government’s Directgov website (www.direct.gov.uk) has advice housing benefit and other welfare benefits, renting from a private landlord, buying a home and accessing social housing.

The Homelessness Link charity runs a website at www.homelessuk.org, offering research, information on homelessness and mapping of homelessness services, including emergency accommodation.

You can find a wealth of information on housing rights for non-UK citizens at www.housing-rights.info, a website run by housing charity, HACT, and the Chartered Institute for Housing.

The Refugee Council (www.refugeecouncil.org.uk) has information on housing in the UK for refugees.

The UK Border Agency (www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk) offers information on claiming asylum, settlement and other rights and responsibilities of people migrating to the UK.

NAT (National AIDS Trust) HIV and the UK Asylum Pathway. 2008. www.nat.org.uk

NAT Housing and support for HIV-positive asylum seekers: implications of withdrawal of Section 21 local authority support. 2009. www.nat.org.uk

Garvie D Far from home: the housing of asylum seekers in private rented accommodation. 2001. www.shelter.org.uk

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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

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We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

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