By Eva Westley
In Chicago, as elsewhere in the country, more people depend on HIV-related care, case management, housing, food vouchers and mental health services than ever before.
But how do you track all of that? How do you measure the success of an integrated system of care and supportive services for thousands of people?
In a time when increasingly...
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Linda Coon is the project director of the Families' and Children's AIDS Network (FCAN) . She traveled with a group of HIV advocates to Springfield last week. Below are her thoughts on the experience.
By Linda Coon
"If the choice is her medication or our housing, we will be homeless."
That was an actual quote from an HIV-negative man who was speaking on behalf of...
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Leading AIDS Advocates Support FDA Approval of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP),
a Promising New HIV Prevention Method, for Men and Women
Written Comments to FDA Advisory Committee Cite Compelling Evidence for PrEP and
Urgent Need for Every Available Tool to End AIDS
New York, May 1, 2012 – In public comments submitted this week, a group of 14 leading...
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Julie Davids, at center with sign, and other AIDS activists joined Occupy Wall Street last week. (Photo courtesy of Kaytee Riek)
AIDS activism has a rich history of taking advocacy to the streets, into city halls and state houses, and into American consciousness.
Last week, veterans of ACT UP — the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — joined the Occupy movement...
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Advocate Renee Radosz, at right, speaks to Rep. Mary Flowers about opposing cuts to HIV services. AFC Photos-Ed Negron
The advocates woke in the dark before dawn and trudged half-asleep onto a bus bound for Springfield.
Bound together by a single purpose, they came from Chicago’s distinct neighborhoods, from the rural communities of southern and western Illinois,...
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It was a busy week in the news for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) and its network of advocates.
On Wednesday, about 200 hundred HIV/AIDS advocates traveled to Springfield, for AFC's annual Lobby Day, to fight the proposed $4 million in HIV service cuts. At the same time, Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed a plan to cut $1.3 billion from the state's Medicaid program. Many of...
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Quinn Medicaid Plan Will Limit Access to Life-Saving Medication, Raise Costs for the State, and Increase HIV Cases
Today, Gov. Pat Quinn released a litany of proposed Medicaid service cuts designed to reduce the budget by $1.3 billion. One of these proposals would make it far more difficult for people with HIV to access once-a-day combination pills that have simplified and vastly...
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Take seven minutes of your day and watch this video on what the proposed budget cuts to HIV services would mean for people in Illinois.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Illinois HIV/AIDS advocates will travel to Springfield, Ill., to oppose the devastating $4 million in proposed budget cuts for HIV services.
Gov. Pat...
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Tim Egan, 42, is currently training with the TEAM TO END AIDS (T2) for the Chicago Triathlon and the Steelhead 70.3 Ironman race.
It will be his third straight year participating in races to raise money and awareness for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Not bad for someone who has never considered himself an athlete.
“My main motivation is to raise as much money as I possibly...
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