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The AIDS Foundation Chicago, Chicago Department of Public Health, and Illinois Department of Public Health have come up with a five-year plan designed to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS while providing a continuum of needed health services. [6] On May 14, 2019 Governor J. B. Pritzker announced the Getting to Zero Illinois initiative. The ...
Caprice Carthans, a trans woman of color and resident of Marquette Park (Chicago), was a co-chair of the Intergraded Community Advisory Board (CAB) at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) [1] and is an inductee of the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2020. [2] [3] Carthans, as of August 2022, is a member of the AFC Board of Directors and CAB. [4]
Lipetz was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2009 [5] because of her “leadership, energy, passion, and vision for Chicago’s LGBT community and the institutions affiliated with it, especially for her work with the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the WPWR-TV Channel 50 Foundation, and Center on Halsted.” [1]
Lori Cannon is a Chicago-based American AIDS activist. [1] She was a volunteer at Chicago House and Social Service Agency, [2] the non-profit organization providing housing and hospice during the AIDS crisis. [3] She then worked with the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, helping to establish the Chicago chapter. She was involved with the 1988 ...
Illinois is in a better place than the early days of HIV/AIDS thanks to heroes who battled the disease, stood up to ignorance, and sought answers On World Aids Day remember those lost to the virus ...
Equitas Health has chosen healthcare executive David Ernesto Munar as the first permanent leader of the LGBTQ+ health provider in more than two years.
Residents of a skid row hotel resolve a long-running dispute with its owner, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, over a chronically broken elevator.
Lois L. Bates (1970-2011) was an activist in Chicago's transgender community. She was known specifically for her HIV prevention work and her advocacy for trans youth. [1] She was also involved with the Chicago Area Ryan White Services Planning Council, Chicago Windy City Black Pride, the Chicago Transgender Coalition, Lakeview Action, the Minority Outreach Intervention Project. [2]