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PATTERNS OF HOUSING AND SERVICE ACCESS AMONG ACTIVELY INJECTING DRUG USERS
C Patton1, D Culhane2, I Goldstone3, M Tyndall4
¹Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture, and Health, Simon Fraser University; 2Simon Fraser University; 3BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; 4BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study (VIDUS), Vancouver, British Columbia
Utilizing data from the longitudinal CHASE study, collected from clients at InSite, Vancouver's pilot safe injection site, we analyze the cyclical nature of housing use among drug injectors. We link housing stability with data on service access and measures of health outcomes, especially HIV serioconversion. We contextualize this population data with interview data from two studies of residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, to project the significance of housing stability for maintaining or jeopardizing health status.