A peer workgroup formed by the Illinois Public Health Association and the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago put together a video of self expression about World AIDS Day and what it means to them. “David, Steve, Chris, …
Effective Dec. 1, 2021, the Illinois Department of Public Health will switch dispensing pharmacies on the Ryan White Medication Assistance Program (MAP/ADAP) from CVS to Walgreens. The new Illinois MAP/ADAP pharmacy network will increase your access to prescription …
Are you caring for someone living with HIV? Are you living with HIV and trying to negotiate the care system with yourself and a child?
Care2Prevent is starting a new support group for young people living with HIV …
HIV.gov’s updated Clinical Info Mobile App gives access to federally approved treatment and research information for HIV and AIDS, developed for mobile devices and provided free of charge. The application is comprised of three modules: federally approved …
Three staff members of the Illinois Department of Public Health authored “HIV/AIDS Factsheet: HIV-Related Stigma and Its Association with Health Outcomes Among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Illinois.” One of the authors, Dr. Fangchao Ma, conducted the stigma …
Linda Beer and her co-authors have published a new article on HIV stigma in AIDS and Behavior. You can view the article, “HIV Stigma Among a National Probability Sample of Adults with Diagnosed HIV—United States, 2018–2019,” at https://rdcu.be/ctOEl…
As summarized in this PDF, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published data from the 2019 cycle (June 2019–May 2020) of the Medical Monitoring Project (MMP). The MMP is an annual, cross-sectional complex sample …
A large new study found that people living with HIV are more likely to become severely ill with Covid-19 and more likely to die if hospitalized, compared with others infected with the virus, the New York Times reported.…
Syracuse University has opened a paid, fully-remote, research opportunity for the people living with HIV. The ACCEPT Study involves a telephone-based treatment for alcohol use and stress.
The study is a pilot randomized clinical trial of a telephone-based …
In this webinar, Melvin Laureano and Mike Maginn of the Illinois Public Health Association, along with community member Dion McNeal, share how the Illinois HIV Care Connect outreach program links persons living with HIV to essential services …