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The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to impact the lives of Chicagoans with a disproportionate burden on Black men who have sex with men (MSM), Latiné MSM, Black cisgender women, and Transgender Women.
6 paź 2022 · In 2020, 269 Chicagoans were diagnosed with AIDS, which is the most advanced stage of HIV infection, when the immune system has been badly damaged by the HIV virus. This is the fewest new AIDS diagnoses since 1985, with an AIDS case rate of 8.4 per 100,000 population.
AIDS becomes the number one cause of death for American men 25-44 years of age. AFC leads a successful campaign to prevent the state from closing a critical Medicaid program for hundreds of persons living with AIDS.
8 gru 2021 · AIDS At 40: The epidemic emerges in Illinois. The first time Dr. Ross Slotten saw an AIDS patient in Chicago, scientists hadn’t yet settled on a name for the disease. The man the then-resident doctor saw was on a ventilator, suffering from a rare form of pneumonia. It was 1982.
26 maj 2023 · Getting to Zero Illinois is a state-wide initiative to end the HIV epidemic in the US state by 2030. The project is coordinated through partnerships with people living with HIV, community-based organisations, health-care providers, government agencies and others, coordinated by the AIDS Foundation Chicago, and the Illinois and Chicago ...
The HIV Resource HUB, a partnership between AFC and Center on Halsted, provides comprehensive information and direct connections to HIV services for people living with and vulnerable to HIV, including HIV testing and PrEP support, mental health counseling, medical transportation, primary care, housing navigation and more.
1 gru 2022 · CHICAGO – In 2021, the second year Chicago faced COVID-19, new HIV cases in Chicago residents rose by just under 2 percent, while new AIDS diagnoses dropped to their lowest level since 1985, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced today.
