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CDC launches Transforming Health: Providing Patient-Centered HIV Care to Transgender People

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention launched Transforming Health, a new website that aims to reach health care providers to help them deliver patient-centered HIV care to transgender people. Part of the Act …

August 29, 2018 |

Springfield’s Phoenix Center Needs Volunteers for Study

The Phoenix Center in Springfield is conducting a study called “IMPACT,” with the SIU School of Medicine. They need men who fall into one of 4 categories:

Living with HIV and not an injection drug user
Living with HIV and

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August 8, 2018 |

IL HIV Care Connect Program Manager Featured in National Newsletter

IIlinois HIV Care Connect Program Manager Mike Maginn is featured in the July 2018 Medical Monitoring Project (MMP) National Advisory Board Quarterly Newsletter.

Mike is the Community Advisory Board representative from Illinois and also participates in the MMP Journal Club, …

August 8, 2018 |

International Antiviral Society–USA Panel Updates ART Use Recommendations

The International Antiviral Society–USA Panel has released updated recommendations for the treatment and prevention of HIV infection in adults, as published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (media.jamanetwork.com). Michael Saag, MD, director of the University of …

July 31, 2018 |

Gilead Announces Changes to Advancing Access Program

Gilead announced its committed to ensuring that people at risk of HIV have access to Truvada for PrEP (emtricitabine 200 mg and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg) tablets. Gilead supports comprehensive payer coverage and maintains the Gilead Advancing Access program …

July 25, 2018 |

IHIPC Recruiting New Members for 2019

Applications will be accepted until September 15

The Illinois HIV Integrated Planning Council (IHIPC) has officially opened up its recruitment for new members for 2019. The council seeks to fill six at-large non-voting member positions. Applications will be accepted until …

July 17, 2018 |

Free IHIPC Webinar Training on High-Impact HIV Prevention Now Posted

The annually updated “High Impact Prevention and Approved Prevention Strategies and Interventions” webinar training can be found directly at: http://www.ihipc.org/HIP&AHSI. The training is presented by Jeffery Erdman on behalf of the Illinois HIV Integrated Planning Council (IHIPC) Linkage to …

July 17, 2018 |

Northwestern’s EDIT Community Spotlight Podcast is Live

The Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) Program housed in Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing is starting a podcast called the EDIT Community Spotlight.

The podcast will feature a series of conversations with …

July 16, 2018 |

Help Test a HIV Prevention App for Young Men Age 13 to 18

The MyPEEPS Mobile Study at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is looking for young guys age to 13 to 18 who are into other guys to help test a mobile HIV prevention app. Eligible individuals will …

July 16, 2018 |