By Carolyn Bloom, Harm Reduction Program Manager
The Connection to Harm Reduction (C2HR) program, in conjunction with AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) and Center for Housing and Health (CHH), is proud to support a free Narcan Newsstand that is located just outside of AFC’s offices on the southwest corner of Monroe and Wells in the Loop.
These...
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By Aleah Vega, Editorial Intern
On August 26th, 1970, women and their allies made United States history for the largest demonstration for gender equality the country had ever seen. Organized by Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women, feminists across more than ninety major cities took to the streets to fight against the pay gap, sexual violence, lack of childcare,...
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By Aleah Vega, Editorial Intern
With her recent promotion to AFC’s Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, Nadeen Israel is more ready than ever to show up and show out for the Chicago community. Work in the nonprofit sector, however, is to Nadeen “like a lifetime journey,” one that she embarked on long before her career began.
Nadeen has been...
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By Diego Roman, Communications Specialist
August 18th marks the third annual Positive Women’s Networks (PWN) Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement Day . PWN aims to use this day to highlight Black women and Black women-led organizations as well as their contributions to ending the HIV epidemic.
AIDS Foundation...
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By Aleah Vega, Editorial Intern
“My only bleedin’ hope is for the folks who can’t cope” TLC’s Lisa Lope raps, “with such an enduring pain that it keep them in the pouring rain”
Last week, we covered songs from the 90s to now with lyrics dedicated to ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. This week, we’ll take...
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By Livvie Avrick, Digital Communications Manager
Frank Morreale is an artist and advocate born in Chicago and a graduate from the School of the Art Institute in the 1960s. His work is best described as dream imagery, and he exclusively works with archival materials: handmade papers, archival pens and adhesives, and recycled bottles. “Art as I experience it is a response...
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By Aleah Vega, Editorial Intern
“What we have here is subject to controversy,” rapped Salt of Salt ‘N’ Pepa on their hit track, Let’s Talk About Sex, “A three letter word some regard as a curse, see.”
Throughout the years, and especially during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, countless songs...
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As we enter into the second half of the year 2023 we here at AIDS Foundation Chicago would like to extend a warm welcome and introduction to our newest Associate board members!
Joined January 2023
Jessica Dangles
Jessica Dangles is the Executive Director with the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC). She believes...
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By Livvie Avrick, Digital Communications Manager
“We’re all born naked, and the rest is drag,” RuPaul famously said.* That’s the first thing that came to William Pettway’s mind when learning of this year’s AIDS Run & Walk Chicago’s new slogan, Show Up, Show Out. William Pettway is a Black nonbinary actor, teaching...
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By Tyline Burgess, Communications Manager, AFC
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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