Open House International: Volume 33 Issue 4

Editorial

Christine Wamsler

HIV/AIDS has now become part of everyday life in urban settlements in the developing world, and presents the world with one of the most serious and disastrous urban challenges it…

African Housing Organisations Respond to The Hiv and Aids Crisis

Priya Gopalen, Barry Pinsky

HIV and AIDS is an urgent housing and human settlements issue, especially among women and children living in poverty and suffering from poor housing conditions in urban slums in…

Addressing The Hiv/Aids and Urban Development Nexus in the Lake Victoria Region

Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga, Charles Ndungu

UN-HABITAT's experiences in the Lake Victoria region and Sub-Saharan Africa show that the underlying causes of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its consequences on urban development must…

Building ‘Positive’ Spaces: Sustainable Human Settlements in The Context of Hiv/Aids

Stacey-Leigh Joseph, Mirjam van Donk

A key development in South Africa's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been the recognition that there are a number of external factors in the socio-economic and physical…

Mainstreaming Hiv/Aids in Housing Developments and Planning in Swaziland

William N. Ndlela

Swaziland is one of the countries with the highest Human Immune-deficiency Virus (HIV) rates in the world. Consequently, the increased need for care and support for people living…

Prevention of Hiv/Aids-Associated Opportunistic Infections Through Housing and Municipal Services

Richard Tomlinson

The background to this paper is the increasing interest in the relationship between housing and municipal services and HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what…

Confidentiality in Architectural Space: A Study of HIV Healthcare Facilities in Uganda

Catharina Nord

This article analyses and discusses spatial conditions contributing to confidentiality in HIV healthcare facilities carried out by two non-governmental organisations in Uganda…

Homelessness and Hiv/Aids in Johannesburg

Olusola Olufemi

This paper contends that the peculiar, chronic, itinerant lifestyles and precarious spaces occupied by the homeless enhance their risk and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. These spaces…