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ARCHIVE Institute is an international charity that focuses on the link between health and housing. ARCHIVE is an acronym for Architecture for Health In Vulnerable Environments. It was incorporated in the US as a non profit organisation in March 2006, and in October 2009 launched a UK branch.

Mission and Approach
Within the the intersection of health and housing, ARCHIVE's international mission operates on two levels: Preventative and treatment-based. On a preventative level the organisation renovates inadequate housing for the economically disadvantaged in a bid to reduce their vulnerability to poor health. It takes a treatment-based approach by creating home-based care facilities for those already suffering from poor health in order to make housing central to the delivery of suitable care. ARCHIVE's UK branch seeks to raise awareness, in mainly underprivileged communities, of these issues.

UK
On the 24th of March the Happy Healthy Households Partnership, including ARCHIVE's UK branch, NHS Brent, the Brent Council, the Brent Refugee and Migrant Forum and various community organisations, was launched. The purpose of the partnership is to raise awareness of the link between Tuberculosis and housing. The partnership chose to focus its efforts in Brent, which has the highest rate of TB of any London Borough (114.1 per 100 000 people), with the majority of those cases occurring among the Black, Asian and Ethnic minorities.

ARCHIVE Institute Poster Competition
In 2007 ARCHIVE organised a poster competition to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. Children under the age of 18 were invited to submit artwork with a theme focusing on the relationship between HIV/AIDS, housing and the community.