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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 ...
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 ...
Their mission was to cultivate and create policies and programs in response to the HIV epidemic, distribute information, and advocate on behalf of all those living with and affected by HIV. [2] The two organizations merged in 2010 to form AIDS United, under the direction of Mark Ishaug, then president and CEO of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. [3]
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 ...
Open Hand Chicago began as a food delivery service for people with HIV/AIDS. It expanded into a food pantry. [4] In 2011 it became part of Heartland Alliance [5] [6] [7] and then became Vital Bridges Food Program as part of the consolidation of Chicago Community Response, Open Hand Chicago, and The HIV Coalition. [8]
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 ...