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Illinois Ryan White Part B Medication Shipment Update

Statewide Partners:

Good evening, I hope this email finds everyone doing well and remaining safe during these challenging times. I am writing tonight to provide action step updates taken by the Illinois ADAP-MAP Program and its contracted dispensing pharmacy, CVS …

CDC Guidance on PrEP During COVID-19

Dear Colleague,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) understands that its partners in HIV prevention are facing unprecedented challenges and demands as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic together. While some clinics and HIV prevention providers have …

Gilead Sciences Statement on Ensuring Continued Supply of HIV Medicine Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Foster City, Calif. – March 23, 2020 – For those with potentially immunosuppressing conditions, such as HIV, the uncertainty caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic can be particularly challenging. Gilead remains focused on ensuring that people living with or at …

Fast Facts – Coronavirus, COVID-19 and People Living with HIV

By Jim Pickett, AIDS Foundation of Chicago

All people, regardless of HIV status, need to be concerned about coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.

Coronavirus is highly contagious and may cause a lot more sickness and death that the

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IDPH HIV Section COVID-19 Guidance for Ryan White Part B Clients, Providers and Stakeholders

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), Office of Health Protection, Division of Infectious Disease, HIV/AIDS Section, and the Ryan White Part B Program (RWPB) has been closely following the COVID-19 outbreak. The Illinois RWPB takes its responsibility to support …

El Departamento de Salud Pública de Chicago insta a los hombres homosexuales sexualmente activos a vacunarse contra la enfermedad meningocócica invasiva

Se ha identificado un pequeño brote de una enfermedad grave

El Departamento de Salud Pública de Chicago (Chicago Department of Public Health, CDPH) insta a los hombres sexualmente activos que tienen sexo con hombres (men who have sex with men, …

Cómo coordinar la cobertura de los programas ADAP asistencia con medicamentos y CHIC asistencia con primas con la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio

Mensaje importante acerca de los programas de asistencia con medicamentos contra el SIDA (programa ADAP asistencia con medicamentos) y de continuidad de cobertura de seguro médico (programa CHIC asistencia con primas).

Si en la actualidad está inscrito o desea inscribirse …

Elija un plan de salud en Get Covered Illinois tras revisar los requisitos de los programas ADAP de asistencia con medicamentos y CHIC de asistencia con primas

La Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA, por sus siglas en inglés) permite a las personas que viven con VIH obtener seguro médico en GetCoveredIllinois.gov. Los planes de seguro ya no pueden denegar cobertura a las …

Video sobre la historia del programa Ryan White VIH/SIDA

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Mayor Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Public Health Announce Historic Decline in New HIV Diagnoses

While HIV rates are declining, STIs are on the rise across the city, according to 2019 HIV/STI Surveillance Report

Chicago, IL – Dec. 23, 2019 – Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) today announced …