HIV/AIDS and Housing Cooperatives

This booklet highlights on what NACHU, the Kenyan national housing cooperative federation, is involved in, the situation of HIV/AIDS pandemic in Kenya and the institutional and policy responses towards combating the scourge. The cooperative sector is looked at with the focus on the housing cooperative societies. The NACHU HIV/AIDS programme then explores the activities, achievements, challenges and the way forward. Click here to read the publication. Coming soon.

This issue deals with Housing and HIV/AIDS issues with case studies from World Urban Forum 3. Prior to the Forum, Rooftops Canada and Lu’ma Housing Society organized a workshop in which organizations from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, India and Canada came together to learn about innovative experiences and strategize on how best to respond to the AIDS crisis in relationship to housing. Click here to read the publication.

The Social Housing Foundation, together with Rooftops Canada/Abri International, has identified the need to investigate current or planned responses to HIV/AIDS within the social housing sector. This is part of a broader intention on the part of both Rooftops and the Social Housing Foundation to mainstream HIV/AIDS programmes into all their work and partnership agreements, and to investigate the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the social housing sector. Click here to read the publication. Click here to read the document.

Co-operatives internationally have a major role to play in the challenge of confronting the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Why should co-operatives be interested in HIV/AIDS? Partly because, as this report documents, co- operatives themselves face difficulties and challenges directly as a result of HIV/AIDS. But the primary reason is because co-operatives, as democratic member-led businesses, subscribe to a set of beliefs which give them a particular reason to want to address the issue of HIV/AIDS. The Statement of Co-operative Identity, adopted in 1995 by the International Co-operative Alliance and recognized worldwide as the defining document of the modern co-operative movement, includes among the declared co-operative values those of social responsibility and caring for others. Click here to read the publication.

The executive summary draws out the key findings and recommendations of the HIV/AIDS impact on housing cooperatives. A myriad of interrelated factors do impact on housing cooperatives just like other sectors given the HIV/AIDS scenario.Click here to read the publication. Click here to read the document.