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|  | Decriminalization of HIV approved in Judiciary-Criminal Committee 2021-04-14
--From a Illinois HIV Action Alliance press release - SPRINGFIELD — Today, the Illinois House Judiciary-Criminal Committee voted 18-0 to approve House Bill 1063 HA1, which would end criminal penalties against people living with HIV (PLWH). Under current law, PLWH face the threat of arrest, ...
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| | HIV/AIDS Report: Vaccine may hold promise
2021-04-10
- Preliminary data from an early stage clinical trial out of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, suggests that a new HIV vaccine may hold promise, ABC News ...
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| | AIDS Healthcare Foundation Lake View clinic holds ribbon-cutting 2021-04-03
- Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) held a ribbon-cutting event for its Lake View facility on March 31. The clinic, 3311 N. Halsted St., is housed within AHF's Out of the Closet thrift store and will ...
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| | NATIONAL Anti-trans attacks, Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, tower, Mary Trump 2021-03-28
- Rayanna Pardo, a 26-year-old Latinx trans woman, was struck by a car and killed while fleeing from a small mob in Los Angeles on March 17, out.com reported. Security video showed Pardo being chased and assaulted ...
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| | PASSAGES Roman Buenrostro 2021-03-26
- Roman Buenrostro, a past AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) Director of Special Projects passed away on March 25, 2021. He was a longtime LGBTQ+ leader and activist for people living with HIV and a co-founder of the ...
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| | Season of Concern benefit with Dixie Longate through March 28
2021-03-22
- Dixie Longate—the fast-talking, gum chewing, ginger-haired Alabama drag personality—is headlining Dixie's Happy Hour as a benefit for Season of Concern Chicago. People are urged to spend an evening with Dixie ...
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| | Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscars party to be virtual on April 25
2021-03-22
- The 29th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) Academy Awards Pre-Party will be hosted by Emmy- and Tony-winning actor and New York Times best-selling author Neil Patrick Harris alongside Sir Elton John and David Furnish, with ...
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| | Chicago House, Center on Halsted among recipients of DIFFA/Chicago funding awards 2021-03-20
--From a press release - (Chicago) — DIFFA/Chicago (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS/Chicago) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's Excellence in Care Awards. DIFFA/Chicago's Board of Directors tasked its Grants Committee to ...
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| | AFC holds virtual annual meeting, awards ceremony: Innovation Through Action 2021-03-09
- AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) held its annual meeting and awards ceremony, "Innovation Through Action," March 4 via Zoom. (It was virtual due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.) AFC President/CEO John Peller said that although much has ...
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| | Racial justice coalition urges prosecutor to drop Jussie Smollett charges 2021-03-04
--From a press release - CHICAGO — Today, a coalition of racial justice and faith based organizations led by the National Black Justice Coalition and including Black Gifted and Whole, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Community Renewal Society, Black AIDS Institute, ...
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| | SPECIAL ISSUE: AIDS at 40 2021-03-04
- In this special quarterly issue, produced by Windy City Timesas as an insert to the Chicago Reader, Windy City Times speaks with long-term HIV/AIDS survivors, deals with HIV-positive representation in media, checks in on young activists of today ...
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| | PrEP options likely to change following Truvada patent expiration 2021-03-04
- Among the myriad challenges facing HIV/AIDS advocates and healthcare providers has been increasing use of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, among persons at risk for HIV transmission. A PrEP intervention, which usually consists of taking the oral ...
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| | TANIA UNZUETA: Fighting for justice, one cause at a time 2021-03-04
- LGBTQ, immigration and political activist Tania Unzueta has spent the last three years living in Georgia involved in political and electoral organizing. She returned to Chicago in January with her partner. Unzueta came to Chicago from ...
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| | HIV at 40: Long-term AIDS survivor Sean Strub on diagnosis, being mayor, Larry Kramer 2021-03-04
- To say Sean Strub is a fighter is almost the supreme understatement. He was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the mid-1980s—when having the disease was almost certainly a death sentence. (Even the doctor who diagnosed him passed ...
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| | STILL HERE: Long-term HIV/AIDS survivors in Chicago reflect on their experiences 2021-03-04
- When the first reported U.S. cases of what later became known as HIV/AIDS were reported in June 1981, a number of physicians and researchers at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and elsewhere sought to understand ...
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