Housing Works in Haiti:

Since 2008, Housing Works has worked with Haitian organizations and coalitions of people living with HIV/AIDS to help stem the spread of the disease and to empower sexual minorities, including LGBTQ+ Haitians and sex workers, to become full participants in Haitian society.

After the 2010 earthquake that killed 300,000 Haitians and displaced more than one million, Housing Works immediately responded with emergency aid, helping with the operations of one existing health clinic and establishing two others for those displaced by the natural disaster. Since then, Housing Works opened an office in Port-au-Prince to join the advocacy efforts of grassroots Haitian AIDS groups. We currently have a team of 14 employees working on outreach and advocacy.

Progress has been made in term of controlling the HIV epidemic but still much more needs to be done to help the most vulnerable. ARV medicines are not readily available and/or expired due to lateness in delivery, there is a lack in healthcare expertise, and HIV stigma persists. HIV positive and LGBTQ+ Haitians alike face housing, employment, and healthcare discrimination as well as the threat of violence.

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