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HIV HUB enters fourth year of helping Chicagoans get healthcare 

February 6, 2024

The HIV Resource Coordination HUB (the HUB) is Chicago’s one-stop shop for comprehensive healthcare, regardless of HIV status.  We know that navigating healthcare sucks – and the HIV Hub is helping to change that.  Now approaching its fourth anniversary, the HUB is a community partnership between AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) and the Center on Halsted to…

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AFC Responds to President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address

March 8, 2024

President Biden stands at a lectern during the State of the Union address, 2024.

CHICAGO, IL – AIDS Foundation Chicago applauds President Biden for calling out the attacks on women’s reproductive care, including the criminalization of clinicians who provide life-saving care to pregnant women and other individuals who can become pregnant, the attacks on the LGBTQ+ community, in particular transgender Americans, and the detrimental impact of price gouging in…

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Nothing About Us Without Us: Illinois’ 2024 Virtual HIV Advocacy Day is April 10

February 29, 2024

The fight against HIV/AIDS has been ongoing for decades, and in Illinois, we persist in our efforts to end the epidemic by 2030. On Wednesday, April 10, advocates, allies, and people living with HIV from every corner of Illinois will come together for the state's virtual HIV Advocacy Day. Deeply rooted in the theme “Nothing…

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Terry Dudley: Access to healthcare – and culturally competent care – should not be a privilege  

February 27, 2024

Terry Dudley is a Black queer Southsider who has dedicated their life to HIV activism since they first accessed LGBTQ+ resources after coming out to a healthcare provider at 16 years old. “My first experience with a youth space was on the Northside being escorted through back doors, being told you can't use the main…

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AIDS Foundation Chicago responds to Governor Pritzker’s FY2025 budget address

February 22, 2024

The statue of Abraham Lincoln in front of the IL State Capitol building and a blue sky.

Facing a Fiscal Year 2025 state budget deficit nearing $900 million, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker delivered his annual State of the State and Budget address on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, before a joint session of the Illinois General Assembly. With a “bright future and opportunities ahead,” Governor Pritzker outlined his $52.7 billion Fiscal Year 2025…

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Making Black History in Chicagoland: New Learning Circle Collaborative Cohort Announcement

February 13, 2024

The Learning Circle Collaborative (LCC) is an organizational development and capacity-building initiative for Black-led Organizations in Chicago, conceived by Dr. Cynthia Tucker of AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) in 2016. The newest cohort for 2024 consists of small and growing Black-led organizations serving Black Chicagoans through HIV care and prevention. These hard-working community organizations provide access…

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Windy City Times has revived its 30 Under 30 Awards

January 26, 2024

CHICAGO—After a four-year hiatus, Windy City Times has revived its 30 Under 30 Awards. Windy City Times is seeking to recognize 30 more outstanding LGBTQ+ individuals (and allies). Nominees should be 30 years or younger as of June 30, 2024, and should have made substantial contributions to the LGBTQ+ community in the fields of entertainment,…

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Johnny Pitts: The Transformative Power of Housing as Healthcare

January 23, 2024

Johnny Pitts has faced numerous challenges in his life, beginning with the loss of his mother to an AIDS-related illness, but he has always found the strength to overcome them. Having received an HIV diagnosis himself in his late twenties, Johnny always feared that he would share the same fate as his mother, so he…

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Honoring the neighbors we have lost on Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day

December 19, 2023

On Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) and the Center for Housing and Health (CHH), along with advocates and grassroots leaders, would like to honor and remember our neighbors who have died houseless. We mourn their lives and the potential and creativity lost in our communities every time we lose a life to…

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Your questions about Doxy-PEP, answered by India Willis, MPH, MSN, FNP-BC 

November 16, 2023

Doxy-PEP (Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a new way to prevent certain sexually transmitted infections including Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia. We’ve heard questions from our community about Doxy-PEP and thought it would be important to raise awareness and share expert information about it.    AFC’s Chief Officer of External Relations, Edward Wagner, recently discussed with India Willis,…

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