HIV researcher in Kamloops to study housing and healthy living
Vicki Nygaard is a researcher for the Pacific AIDS Network and is interviewing people from the Kamloops area who are HIV positive. She wants to know about their life and their homes. The goal of the study is to learn more about how people’s housing affects how they live with HIV.
“Housing is a key issue, because if you’re not stably or safely housed, are you in a position to take your medication everyday? Are in a position to make the kind of food that you need to meet your nutritional requirements everyday?” she says. “There’s this intersection between all these factors.”
Along with Kamloops, the Positive Living, Positive Homes study is being conducted in Prince George and Vancouver.