AFC Promotes Chicago-Global Connection

The AIDS Foundation of Chicago has compiled the 2004 directory of Chicago-based projects working on global AIDS. Please download the directory!

Local groups, including multi-service organizations, neighborhood clubs, and churches, have begun efforts to respond to global AIDS. AFC encourages agencies currently involved in a global project, and those who are interested in doing global work, to utilize the directory and publicize the important global work happening in Chicago among peer organizations and concerned Chicago-area residents.

Chicago-based Groups Working on Global AIDS in 2004

AIDS Vision Network
World Vision
5001 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60644
773-921-3900
Fax: 773-921-3953
shayne@aidsvisionnetwork.org
www.aidsvisionnetwork.org
AIDS Vision Network is an online auxiliary group to World Vision. Its mission is to empower individuals through networks to make an impact on the worst humanitarian crisis of all time. It exists to assist with the inevitable question, "But what can I do?" Church groups, lay ministers, and individuals will build relationships online by gaining information, posting updates from their community, sharing ideas and asking questions.
Global projects: AVN supports and is supported by World Vision which is an international Christian humanitarian organization serving the world's poorest children and families in nearly 100 countries. In all of these countries it is working to reduce the impact and spread of HIV/AIDS through prevention, care, and advocacy. World Vision's assistance extends to all people regardless of religious belief, gender, race, or ethic background.

Canticle Ministries
Box 667
Wheaton, IL 60189
630-784-2722
Fax: 630-588-9167
brad@canticleministries.org
www.canticleministries.org
Transitional Housing, client services (computer training, newsletters), community education and advocacy; Scholarships for high school students, impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Global projects: Annual mission trip to rural Kenya to assist in community and public health projects (medical clinics, building projects, education programs); uniquely, we encourage local people living with and working with HIV/AIDS to be apart of this movement as a part of our own healing, and broadening our visions of our challenge.

CARE
Chicago Field Office
70 East Lake Street, Room 1430
Chicago, IL 60601
312-641-1430
Fax: 312-641-3747
www.care.org
With local partners, CARE works to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, provide care and support for those affected, and to find lasting solutions to wider social and economic problems that exacerbate it.
Global projects: The Chicago Office is primarily a fundraising office to help support CARE's overseas programs, including its AIDS programs.

Children Affected by AIDS Foundation
5315 N. Clark Street, Suite 310
Chicago, IL 60640
773-558-0075
Brian.Lepacek@caaf4kids.org
www.caaf4kids.org
The mission of the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation (CAAF) is to make a positive difference in the lives of children living with HIV and affected by AIDS. CAAF accomplishes this mission by helping to find projects that meet the special needs of children with HIV, advocating and educating on their behalf, and bringing joy and fun into their lives.
Global projects: CAAF makes grants that will further the general public's awareness of this crisis and provide tools to advocate on behalf of people affected by the epidemic globally. CAAF is involved in several projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

Global Alliance for Africa
703 West Monroe
Chicago, IL 60661
312-382-0607
Fax: 312-906-9930
director@globalallianceafrica.org
www.globalallianceafrica.org
Global Alliance for Africa works alongside African organizations, agencies, and local communities to design and develop long-term, self-sustaining programs in health care and education. It focuses on remote rural areas and urban slums where development is hindered due to lack of resources, poverty, and inadequate health care.
Global projects: Global Alliance for Africa works in partnership with several women's groups, local community groups, urban associations, development agencies, and religious organizations in Africa. During the last four years, they are focusing on developing partnerships with Africans to provide food, shelter, and education to children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Hands of Hope
800 Hart Road Suite 100
Barrington, IL 60010
847-381-7367
Fax: 847-842-0539
info@handsofhopeonline.org
www.handsofhopeonline.org
Addressing the critical needs of woman and children with current focus on AIDS and poverty in Africa.
Global projects: Funding AIDS Education in Rwanda and Vocational Training School for AIDS Orphans in Uganda with micro finance loans.

Howard Brown Health Center
4025 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60613
773-388-160
webmaster@howardbrown.org
www.howardbrown.org
Howard Brown Health Center is the Midwest's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health organization.
Global project: The Howard Brown Health Center is involved in a "China Project" that provides rapid HIV antibody testing to at-risk adults in China. The project includes a special focus on gay men and female sex workers, two groups seriously threatened by HIV but largely shunned by the Chinese government. The Center is also providing training and materials to start a HIV/AIDS prevention, training and care in Zhejiang Province of China.

International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
33 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1700
Chicago, Illinois 60602-2601
312-795-4930
Fax: 312-795-4938
iapac@iapac.org
www.iapac.org
The mission of IAPAC is to craft and implement global education and advocacy strategies to improve the quality of care provided to all people living with HIV/AIDS and associated co-infectious diseases.

Joliet Diocese
Boulevard
Romeoville, IL 60446
815-834-4028
Fax: 815-838-8129
peace@dioceseofjoliet.org
Global projects: The Joliet Diocese is involved in several projects in Africa concerning people with AIDS. Funding goes directly from parishes or individuals to help fund these overseas projects.

Nigerian-American Public Professionals Association (NAPPA)
P O Box 4038
Chicago, IL 60654-4038
312-409-3998
info@nappas.org
www.nappas.org/index.html
NAPPA representing Nigerian-American public service employees in ranking positions in federal, state, county and city government. It serves as a nexus for strengthening our professional and community link with all governmental bodies. Our philanthropic endeavors seek to enhance and expand initiatives improving the health and welfare of indigent populations here in Chicago - where we were founded in 1998 - and in disadvantaged Africa - from whence our majority hails.
Global projects: Recently announced 2004 AIDS grants accredited to all institutions and NGO's in Nigeria seeking funding to fight the spread of AIDS in the country.

Northern Illinois University
School of Allied Health Professions
DeKalb, IL 60115-2854
815-753-4801
Fax: 815-753-0720
nbukonda@niu.edu
The School of Allied Health Professions at Northern Illinois University focuses on teaching, research and service in health care. Through the efforts of an award-winning faculty and affiliations with major health care employers, the School of Allied Health Professions provides students with the knowledge and experience necessary to meet the challenges of providing health care in the 21st century.
Global HIV Infection Control Project: Directed by Dr. Ngoyi K. Zacharie Bukonda, a two-year partnership between Northern Illinois University (School of Allied Health Professions) and the University of Mbuji Mayi (Medical School) will form a core group of trainers/facilitators for HIV Infection Control programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The local co-director of the project is Professor Tumba Disashi, Dean of the Medical School, University of Mbuji Mayi. The project will address human capacity and research development needs to improve infection control and HIV transmission that is coming through unsafe medical care. The overall goal of the partnership will be to decrease HIV infection through unsafe medical care in two of the most deprived health zones in Eastern Kasai province.

Trinity United Church of Christ
400 West 95th Street
Chicago, IL
773-962-5650
info@tucc.org
http://www.tucc.org/hiv_aids.htm
The Trinity United Church of Christ HIV/AIDS Support Ministry is a ministry of comfort through support, education, and training for individuals, families and friends impacted by HIV disease.
Global project: Project 31 and the Beaded AIDS Awareness Badges assist South African women with HIV. The women that Project 31 assists are destitute and the program seeks to teach them skills through which they can earn a living for themselves and their children regardless of their HIV status. The profits from the sale of beaded AIDS awareness badges help to sustain hospital AIDS wards, mobile clinics, and expand training for South African women.