The AIDS Foundation of Chicago's Service Providers Council offers scheduled prevention conferences multiple times a year. HIV prevention providers, consumers, and advocates are encouraged to participate in AFC's HIV prevention conferences. Each prevention conference focuses on different target populations, offering strategies relating to various topics including HIV prevention policy, research, and risk-reduction.
Upcoming Events
 Saturday, March 6, 2010:Educate, Inspire, and Transform: An Intergenerational HIV Prevention and Empowerment Workshop for Women and Girls
In recognition of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day this workshop will be held Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 8:30am-3:00pm at the Gary Comer Youth Center (7200 South Ingleside Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619).
Register here.
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We invite girls (age 13-22) and their role models and caregivers (mothers, grandmothers, teachers, social service providers, and counselors) and other adult allies interested in improving the health and wellbeing of all girls to join us for an educational workshop about HIV, healthy sexuality, and healthy relationships.
Sessions will aim to increase the number of young women who know how HIV/AIDS is transmitted and believe HIV/AIDS is a serious health problem/risk for people their age. Accurate information and resources about HIV/AIDS, self-worth, healthy relationships, empowerment, and leadership will be provided.
The workshop will encourage and foster discussions related to sexual health matters and HIV prevention messages with participants’ friends and family members, extending the benefits of the event to the broader community.
Co-hosted and supported by the Chicago Girls’ Coalition, Howard Brown Health Center, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, HIV/AIDS Regional Resource Network Program, and Office on Women’s Health - Region V.
Questions about the workshop? Please contact Lesley Craig.
Past Events
 Thursday, October 1, 2009: Healthy Sexy & Older - Crossroads: HIV & Aging Conference
This one day conference explored HIV risk and how HIV is affecting the aging population and discussed issues relating to health care. The conference featured Oluwatoyin Falusi Adeyemi, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, and Nathan Linsk, PhD., Professor, Jane Addams School of Social Work, P.I., Matec.
View PDF slide presentations from this conference:
 Friday, July 31, 2009 - 10 - Living The Lifestyle Wellness Conference.
African-American MSM leaders, service providers, and others attended the prevention and wellness conference called 10- Living the Lifestyle Wellness Conference. Participants networked and gained skills and resources to strengthen HIV/AIDS prevention efforts for the African-American MSM (AAMSM) community. AAMSM are a population whose HIV/AIDS infection rates are disproportionate when compared to those of other ethnic and risk exposure populations in the United States, specifically in Chicago.
In case you missed the event, check out slide presentations from presenters Dr. Grady Garner and Nik Prachand.
Read more about the event in the Chicago Free Press here.
View pictures from the event here.
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - The Intersection of Poverty, Homelessness, Economic Dependence and HIV
The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) and the Service Providers Council (SPC) along with the Women’s Collaborative of Greater Chicago and the Illinois Women of African American Descent and many organizations that primary mission is working with African American women are sponsored a women’s conference on the intersection of poverty, homelessness, economic dependence and HIV.
The one-day event focused on how poverty, homelessness and the lack of economic dependence play a critical role in the rates of HIV infections in African American women. The conference featured Lynn Todman, PhD, Director of the Institute on Social Exclusion at the Adler School of Professional Psychology and Chakena Conway, Youth Advocate & Activist, Center for Women & HIV Advocacy, HIV Law Project, NY.
View Dr. Todman's presentation (PDF) here.
View pictures from the event here.
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