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The AIDS Foundation of Chicago offers testing, financial assistance, medication, and housing. HIV, HCV and other types of STI testing are available through the AFC; along with HIV education for those who are diagnosed and in need of assistance handling their symptoms and diagnosis.
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]
Zahara Monique Bassett is the founder and CEO of Life Is Work. Life is Work is a social service agency on the West Side of Chicago. [1] She is also “a nationally recognized visionary activist and long-time advocate for trans human rights, social justice, health equity, and LGBT equality.” [2]
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]
Patricia “Patty the Pin Lady” Latham (May 9, 1943 [1] – June 4, 2022) was a LGBT activist and AIDS fundraiser known for selling pins in Chicago. As of 2017, she had raised over $50,000. As of 2017, she had raised over $50,000.
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 ...
A hospital claimed it didn't have the "capacity" to care for a mom in labor, which caused her baby to die of infection at 35 hours old, a lawsuit alleges
Katherine “Kit” Duffy (1944, Hagerstown, Maryland [1]-December 22, 2015) [2] was the first liaison to the gay and lesbian community in Chicago. She was appointed in 1984 by Mayor Harold Washington. Her concerns at the time were AIDS education and issues related to equality and fairness.