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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 ...
Using WHO statistics, in 2012 the number of people living with HIV was growing at a faster rate (1.98%) than worldwide human population growth (1.1% annual), [2] and the cumulative number of people with HIV is growing at roughly three times faster (3.22%). The costs of treatment is significantly increasing burden on healthcare systems when ...
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]
Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist known for her inspirational talks in the 1990s as a young child to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with, has died. She was 39. (AP ...
LeRoy Whitfield (September 19, 1969 – October 9, 2005) was an African-American freelance journalist who chronicled his personal experience with HIV infection and AIDS.He was hailed by many as one of the nation's leading journalists reporting on AIDS in the African-American community.
Since 1981, nearly 39 million people globally have died from AIDS-related illnesses, the result of HIV if left untreated. In the 1980s and '90s, the height of the epidemic, gay and bisexual men ...
Ronnie Grace was a beloved advocate who helped gay men in Milwaukee battle HIV/AIDS. He died in Texas where he was receiving cancer treatment. ... treatment and support of people with AIDS since I ...
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 ...