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Housing/lack of housing and HIV are powerfully linked. Housing occupies an important place in the causal chains linking poverty and inequality, and HIV risk and outcomes of infection. The articles in this Special Supplement of AIDS and Behavior confirm the impact of homelessness, and poor or unstable housing, on HIV/AIDS, and challenge scientists to test and policy makers to implement the promise of housing as an innovative response to the epidemic. In order to influence the development of policies on housing to benefit at-risk or HIV-infected persons, however, proponents must justify why this association exists, and how housing can help end the epidemic as well as improve the care and health of persons living with HIV/AIDS. We introduce this supplement with a discussion of the “why” question.

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  1. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St., R503, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Angela A. Aidala

  2. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 30333, USA

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Aidala, A.A., Sumartojo, E. Why Housing?. AIDS Behav 11 (Suppl 2), 1–6 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-007-9302-z

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