Public Health Boot Camp: Fostering Future HIV Community Leaders

AIDS Foundation of Chicago and the DePaul University Master of Public Health Program are sponsoring an intensive training program designed to enhance AIDS organizational leaders’ professional knowledge of core public health concepts. Program participants will be selected through a competitive application process. The application deadline is Thursday, July 31, 2008.

The goal of the training program is to improve the quality and effectiveness of HIV prevention services in metropolitan Chicago by exposing AIDS organizational leaders to core concepts of public health science, theory, and practice. To learn more, click HERE.

Know Your Status: National HIV Testing Day Raises Awareness in Chicago

This year, on June 27th, local organizations across the nation engage with communities to promote early diagnosis and HIV-testing.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 250,000 of the one million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States are unaware of their status.

Click here to find a testing site in your area. Learn more about HIV testing here.

Funding Approved by General Assembly Threatened by Budget Deficit

Springfield, IL—On May 31, the Illinois General Assembly approved a fiscal year 2009 state budget that provides $1.5 million in new funding for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and implementation of a new HIV testing law that became effective June 1, 2008.

However, AFC is concerned that budget negotiations could jeopardize the additional $1.5 million in HIV/AIDS funding appropriated by the General Assembly. Learn more here.

AFC Kick-Starts National HIV Testing Day with T-Shirt Campaign

On May 8, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's Junior Board presented Make a Statement: Design for the Cure, a fashion show aimed at raising awareness of National HIV/AIDS Testing Day among the city's young adults.

At the event, models donned campaign t-shirts with provocative slogans like "HIV Testing: Try it on" and "That condom looks great on you." The show raised more than $31, 000 to benefit AFC's prevention, grantmaking, and advocacy programs.

Visit HIVtest.org to learn more about National HIV/AIDS Testing Day.



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