Full Text of HR0362 94th General Assembly
HR0362 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) is | 3 |
| celebrating its 20th anniversary this year; and
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| WHEREAS, The AFC was founded by four dedicated community | 5 |
| activists and physicians, Dr. Ron Sable, Dr. Renslow Sherer, | 6 |
| Judy Carter, and William Young, in 1985 to respond to the | 7 |
| emerging devastation of AIDS; the mission of the organization | 8 |
| is to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS and improve the lives of | 9 |
| people affected by the epidemic; and
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| WHEREAS, The problem of HIV/AIDS continues to impact | 11 |
| communities in Illinois, nationally, and around the world; an | 12 |
| estimated 35,000 Illinoisans are living with HIV/AIDS, and | 13 |
| about 70% of these individuals live in Chicago, Cook County, | 14 |
| and the collar counties, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's | 15 |
| service area; over half of reported AIDS cases in 2003 were | 16 |
| among men who have sex with men, and over one-quarter were | 17 |
| among injection drug users; and
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| WHEREAS, People of color are disproportionately impacted | 19 |
| by HIV/AIDS; African-Americans make up just over half of the | 20 |
| State's reported AIDS cases, and one in six is Latino; | 21 |
| two-thirds of Illinois women living with HIV/AIDS are | 22 |
| African-American; and
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| WHEREAS, The AFC created the Service Providers Council in | 24 |
| 1986 to bring together community agencies in the fight against | 25 |
| AIDS; the Service Providers Council today unites agencies from | 26 |
| a nine-county Chicago metropolitan area delivering services to | 27 |
| people with HIV/AIDS; the Service Providers Council shares best | 28 |
| practices and ensures efficient service delivery and | 29 |
| consistency of services; and
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| WHEREAS, The AFC convened the region's HIV/AIDS case |
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| management system, which is renowned as a national model in | 2 |
| service integration; the system serves HIV-positive people who | 3 |
| struggle with homelessness, mental illness, addiction, | 4 |
| poverty, and other health concerns; more than 5,000 individuals | 5 |
| receive assistance from the system's 165 case managers working | 6 |
| at 49 agencies across metropolitan Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, The AFC's grant making program began in 1988 and | 8 |
| is today the Midwest's largest source of private funding for | 9 |
| local AIDS organizations; the program has distributed more than | 10 |
| $14 million for HIV prevention, care, and advocacy projects, | 11 |
| and in 2004 provided 61 local AIDS agencies $1.2 million in | 12 |
| grant funding; and
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| WHEREAS, Each month the AFC mobilizes thousands of AIDS | 14 |
| advocates to address local, State, and federal HIV/AIDS policy | 15 |
| issues; disseminating accurate and timely information about | 16 |
| trends in the epidemic is an important way the AFC builds pubic | 17 |
| and private support for the fight against HIV/AIDS; therefore, | 18 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 20 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 21 |
| we congratulate the AIDS Foundation of Chicago on the occasion | 22 |
| of the agency's 20th anniversary; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 24 |
| presented to the AIDS Foundation of Chicago as an expression of | 25 |
| our esteem and with best wishes for the organization's future | 26 |
| success.
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