Report: HIV/AIDS In Chicago By The Numbers
Story by Erica Demarest, courtesy of the Windy City Times: Between 1990 and 2010, the city of Chicago saw a 39 percent decrease in newly reported A...
Story by Erica Demarest, courtesy of the Windy City Times: Between 1990 and 2010, the city of Chicago saw a 39 percent decrease in newly reported A...
David Ernesto Munar | Posted 12.03.2011
In adolescence, I ran from the taunting and torment of being a fat, gay kid with little ability to change my circumstances. Today, I chase transcendence in new ways.
Posted 11.13.2011
A Chicagoan is among four individuals featured in a touching new web video series depicting the stories of HIV-positive people living in the United St...
David Ernesto Munar | Posted 09.12.2011
In a sad twist of irony, the White House proposal to rollback critical health benefits, essential to the control of HIV/AIDS, is emerging on the one-year anniversary of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, unveiled by Obama in July 2010.
Posted 08.23.2011
A 39-year-old HIV-positive Chicago man claimed Wednesday that he was denied access to medication prescribed to help him manage his condition during a ...
Posted 08.20.2011
Following in the footsteps of the San Francisco Giants, the Chicago Cubs Monday became the second professional sports team to join the "It Gets Better...
David Ernesto Munar | Posted 08.06.2011
We can and indeed must change the story about HIV/AIDS in our city and nation. Changing the story means working together to end HIV/AIDS in every neighborhood, every town, every state.
Jim Pickett | Posted 06.28.2011
Why, 30 years into the AIDS crisis, are rates of HIV highest among young gay men, particularly men of color? I interviewed Dr. Ron Stall, a leading HIV prevention expert.
David Ormsby | Posted 05.25.2011
In the belching, burning wreckage of the Illinois budget, a survivor, miraculously, emerged. Pat Quinn announced today that state funding for the Illinois AIDS Drug Assistance Program would be spared.
David Ormsby | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's hope Governor Quinn can scrape up the commitment and the $9.7 million out of a $25 billion budget to provide HIV/AID drugs to help keep people, your neighbors, alive.
Mark Ishaug | Posted 05.25.2011
Unless immediate actions are taken to remedy the state's spiraling budget crisis, vital HIV/AIDS services will be put in serious jeopardy.
Chicago Reporter | Kelly Virella and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein | Posted 05.25.2011
HIV and AIDS activists around the state are informally discussing whether to launch a last ditch effort to reinstate millions in the current year's b...
Posted 01.09.2012