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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 ...
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 ...
In 2015, the organization began to provide free legal services and advice once a week, along with the help of the Legal Assistance Foundation and the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago. [11] Howard Brown expanded its facility in Rogers Park, becoming the agency's sixth location in the summer of 2017. This establishment provided more amenities for ...
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 ...
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts; AIDS Activities Coordinating Office; AIDS Clinical Trials Group; AIDS Education and Training Centers; AIDS Foundation Houston; AIDS Foundation of Chicago; AIDS Healthcare Foundation; AIDS Research Alliance; Alliance for Positive Change; AIDS Services of Austin; AIDS United; AIDS Vaccine 200; AIDS Vaccine ...
Open Hand Chicago was originally founded in 1988. [1] It was co-founded by Chicago AIDS activists including Lori Cannon , James Cappleman , Greg Harris , and Tom Tunney . Using San Francisco's Project Open Hand as a model, Open Hand Chicago delivered 41,476 meals in its first year.
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]
Maya Green is the Chief Medical Officer at Chicago’s Howard Brown Health and the founder of HIV Real Talk which is a community based HIV screening and prevention program. [1] Green was an educator, in both private and public schools, before getting her medical training. She also serves on the AMA-LGBT Medical Advisory Committee. [2]