Getting to Zero Overview
Join our movement to get to zero!
Getting to Zero Illinois is a state-wide initiative to end the HIV epidemic in the state by 2030. Through partnerships with people living with HIV, community-based organizations, health care providers, government agencies and others, we can dramatically shift HIV in Illinois. AIDS Foundation Chicago and the Illinois and Chicago Departments of Public Health coordinate the Getting to Zero Illinois project.
If you are a service provider or receive services in Illinois related to HIV and AIDS, we want to hear your thoughts on our refreshed GTZ 2.0 plan.
Tell us your thoughts in this brief survey.
Quick Links
- Getting to Zero Dashboard
- First-ever Getting to Zero Illinois Community Grant Program awards over $350,000 in grants
- Getting to zero through sex ed
- Getting to Zero Website
- Getting To Zero Omnibus Bill included in the Illinois State Budget in historic investments with a vote of 72-42
- What you need to know about Getting to Zero in Illinois
Public Comment Period for the GTZ-IL 2.0 Draft Plan — November 2023
The Getting to Zero IL 2.0 Taskforce would love to hear from you about what do you like the most and your recommendations on the existing GTZ-IL 2.0 draft plan. This public comment period is a part of a multi-step progress to get information from communities across Illinois. Other sources of input have included focus groups, in-person town hall meetings, and an online survey in both English and Spanish. The opportunity to provide public comments to the draft plan will be available from Friday, November 10th through Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023.
GTZ IL 2.0 Goals, Objectives, and Strategies Recommendation
Goals and vision
We want to make sure the HIV epidemic is no longer able to sustain itself by achieving both HIV prevention and access to care goals. We strive to see:
1. Zero new HIV
2. Zero people living with HIV who are not engaged in care
Through increasing access to and uptake of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), retaining more people living with HIV in care and continued funding of ongoing supportive services, we can get to zero.
Areas of focus
GTZ-IL focuses on six main areas of work that organize our goals and strategies: Workforce, Healthcare (which includes care, prevention and housing access), Equity, Efficiency, Linked Conditions and Surveillance (data). There are five principles that lay the foundation for our work in every area: eliminating stigma, dismantling racism, prioritizing trauma prevention and trauma-informed care, practicing cultural humility and focusing on data to achieve outcomes