AIDSVu has released the first-ever interactive state-level maps visualizing a 73 percent increase year over year in persons using PrEP across the U.S. from 2012 to 2016, with 77,120 PrEP users in 2016. PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, …
Project Inform recently updated its Getting Yourself Prepared for PrEP flow chart to reflect a few new changes in the information:
Services include free HIV and hepatitis C testing; free Naloxone/Narcan, clean needles and condoms; as well as counseling, medical and dental care, women’s health, and more. See flyer.
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Feb. 19, 2018 — With a goal of “getting to zero” new HIV infections in Illinois within the next 10 years, groups of people living with HIV met with advocates, clinicians, service providers and government officials in a …
Review New Treatment as Prevention Web and Video Content, Then Take the Quiz
Springfield, Ill. – Jan. 9, 2018 – To encourage people living with HIV to stay committed to their HIV care regimens, Illinois HIV Care Connect…
Illinois HIV Care Connect introduces new web and video content and encourages people living with HIV to take the Treatment as Prevention Quiz
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Nov. 29, 2017—Due to treatment as prevention advancements, getting to zero HIV cases in
Murphysboro, Ill. — Oct. 16, 2017 — A preventative drug now offered by the Jackson County Health Department has the potential to virtually eliminate new cases of HIV in the region within a generation, The Southern reported in …
Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) Campaign increases awareness of scientific evidence that effective HIV treatment successfully stops the spread of HIV
CHICAGO – Sept. 28, 2017 – The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that both the City …
HIV treatment can prevent the transmission of HIV to others
Springfield, Ill. – Sept. 19, 2017 – To help people living with HIV understand how HIV treatment can prevent the transmission of HIV to others, Illinois HIV Care …
Sept. 7, 2017 — Illinois’ Getting to Zero (GTZ) Framework Committee has developed a one-page fact sheet and 11-page GTZ framework document. Both publications describe practical steps Illinois plans to take to eliminate HIV in Illinois. Many …