Background:

The HIV epidemic in Canada is increasingly affecting marginalised groups. While highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is freely available to those eligible, socioeconomic barriers too frequently prevent marginalised individuals from accessing therapy.

There are known links between the physical and social attributes of neighbourhoods, perception of neighbourhood attributes, health status and health-related risk behaviours.

The objective of this study was to determine the impact of stable housing, food security — two critical neighbourhood issues in British Columbia  along with other sociodemographic and clinical variables, on perception of neighbourhood among people receiving HAART.

Authors: K Vasarhelyi, EK Brandson, AK Palmer, K Fernandes, W Zhang, E Druyts, JS Montaner, RS Hogg