Claim: Chicago receives $6.7M to help people living with HIV/AIDS.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: AIDS Foundation of Chicago
text: AIDS Foundation of Chicago The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) is a non-profit organization, based in Chicago, which is active in the field of HIV/AIDS and health equity. Its mission is to mobilize communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to HIV and related chronic diseases. It works toward a world in which people living with HIV and related chronic diseases will thrive, and new HIV infections will be rare. The AIDS Foundation of Chicago was founded in 1985. In 2012, the organization established community-based HIV testing and set up partnerships with medical homes to

title: Howard Brown Health Center
text: HIV/AIDS. Additional locations are in the Boystown, Englewood, Lakeview, and Rogers Park neighborhoods. Youth aged 12–24 may access services at Howard Brown Health Center's Broadway Youth Center (BYC), located in Chicago's Boystown neighborhood. In addition to providing medical services, the center offers a GED program; high school and college tutoring; assistance in applying for health insurance, food stamps, housing and jobs; food, clothes and laundry services; refuge and other care to LGBTQ youth. Howard Brown Health operates three resale shops called The Brown Elephant in Chicago's Lakeview and Andersonville neighborhoods and in suburban Oak Park. Donations go to support the

title: AIDS Foundation of Chicago
text: initiate care within 72 hours for individuals found to be HIV positive. The AFC was one of the founding organizations of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates. AIDS Foundation of Chicago The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) is a non-profit organization, based in Chicago, which is active in the field of HIV/AIDS and health equity. Its mission is to mobilize communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to HIV and related chronic diseases. It works toward a world in which people living with HIV and related chronic diseases will thrive, and new HIV infections will be

title: Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration
text: relief for the 15 countries most affected by HIV/AIDS, another $5 billion for continuing support of AIDS relief in 100 countries where the U.S. already had bilateral programs established, and an additional $1 billion towards the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This budget represented more money contributed to fight AIDS globally than all other donor countries combined. As the largest national economy in the world, the United States' leadership and commitment was seen as vital in addressing world poverty and ensuring implementation of the project, considered the most progressive and feasible to date for the United Nations

title: Christie Hefner
text: helped to raise $30 million to build the CORE Center in Chicago, the first outpatient facility in the Midwest for people with AIDS. From 2007 to 2011, she served as Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign for the Black Ensemble Theatre (BET). BET was founded in 1976. It is a cultural jewel in the city of Chicago, committed to using theater as a cultural bridge, bringing together people of all nationalities and cultures to facilitate communication, understanding and acceptance, while celebrating the uniqueness of the human spirit. She married former Illinois state senator William A. Marovitz, a real estate developer and

title: Howard Brown Health Center
text: in great breakthroughs in AIDS treatment and prevention. Besides research, the agency continued to serve the community by helping to set up the city's first AIDS hotline in 1985, and organizing medical and psychosocial services to the affected members of the community. In 1991, the Howard Brown Health Center was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. It was recognized as "the Midwest's leading provider of support services to and for people living with AIDS and HIV disease, and an internationally recognized center for hepatitis and AIDS/HIV research." In 1997, Howard Brown Health's new facility on Sheridan

title: AIDS Drug Assistance Programs
text: with California receiving $288 Million, New York $241 Million, Texas $101 Million, and Florida $97 Million. The program first began in 1987 with appropriations to help pay for AZT. The program was expanded in 1990 with the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act (commonly referred to as the Ryan White Care Act. Most recipients are below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) and 43 percent are below 100% the FPL. 63% are black or hispanic and 77% are male. In 2010, some states, citing budgetary reasons began cutbacks to the ADAP Formulary or instituted waiting lists for

title: HIV/AIDS in Ghana
text: the World Bank-funded Treatment Acceleration Program for public-private partnership in HIV/AIDS management; the World Health Organization (WHO) 3X5 initiative; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). Following the Declaration of Commitment of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in 2001, the Government of Ghana earmarked 15% of its health budget for HIV/AIDS activities, and all ministries were asked to create an HIV/AIDS budget line. Available funding to support Ghana’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic includes about $6.7 million from GFATM; about $12 million from multilateral partners, including the World Bank; and about $8 million

title: Mark Harrington (HIV/AIDS activist)
text: money from the MacArthur Foundation, Harrington felt that it would be best served to help combat HIV infections in countries that are largest and most devastatingly hit. In 2007 he received a $4.7 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which he used for expanding initiatives to educate AIDS activists in Africa on the dangers and truths of TB, and increase government intervention. His work on tuberculosis began in 2002, and continues to present day. Harrington hopes to get more emphasis put on tuberculosis as it is characteristically a disease of the poor and marginalized so it has

title: Gay Men's Health Crisis
text: more clients. The Keith Haring Food Pantry Program will increase its capacity to provide grocery bags and nutrition counseling to more people in need. The new location has enabled GMHC to expand its services to meet the growing and complex needs of people affected by HIV/AIDS. In this 30th year of the epidemic, HIV continues to rise at alarming rates – locally and nationally – particularly among women, African Americans, Latinos and men who have sex with men. The HIV prevention and testing programs are being expanded in the new GMHC Center for HIV Prevention at 224 West 29th Street

title: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
text: $4.88 billion for bilateral HIV/AIDS programs and $1.65 billion for the Global Fund. PEPFAR was exempt from the Mexico City Policy. Annual data on the PEPFAR budget, spending by budget code, and impact estimates are available online at https://data.pepfar.net/. Data is only available for the years 2004 through 2014 as of January 2016. Funding amounts to specific in-country implementing mechanisms and partners are only available for the year 2013 onward. In 2008, funding data was obtained by the Center for Public Integrity from PEPFAR's own information system COPRS. The data were obtained after CPI sued the U.S. State Department to

title: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
text: Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia. Most of the $15 billion for the program was to be spent on these focus countries, $4 billion was allocated for programs elsewhere, and for HIV/AIDS research. (The other $1 billion was contributed to the Global Fund, see below.) With the reauthorization of PEPFAR in 2008 there was a shift away from the "focus country" approach by authorizing the development of a Partnership Framework model for regions and countries, with the aim of ensuring long-term sustainability and country leadership. Through bilaterally-funded programs, PEPFAR works in partnership with host nations to support treatment, prevention and

title: 2012 Chicago summit
text: for the police department, which wracked up millions of dollars in overtime, training and related costs. The city seeks payment of $14.6 million for police services. The remainder of the bill, a little less than $1 million, is for fire department services. Sarah Hamilton, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's communications director, described the bill as "our first reimbursement request," with more to come. "We will make others and plan to have all reimbursements submitted within the month," she said in an email, but added that the 29 June bill represent most of what eventually will be requested. 2012 Chicago summit The 2012

title: 2006 Gay Games
text: USD$4 million. The financial success of the Chicago games was announced a year after the close of the games. According to Kevin Boyer, the co-vice chair of Chicago Games Inc., the final total cash budget of the 2006 games was slightly over US$9 million. He reported that there were an additional, "$13.2 million in barter and in-kind sponsorships which included, among other categories, media and marketing ($7.2 million), legal service, cash handling, technology consulting, and waived facility rentals." The state of Illinois provided a 1.4% of the cash budget through a $125,000 tourism grant. CGI managed to fill a budget

title: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
text: Services appropriations bills, which, if the process goes smoothly, are agreed to by the House and Senate in advance of the federal fiscal year beginning October 1. The Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) budgets according to the allocations provided by Congress and the policy of the Administration. Funding figures by program are reported to Congress by the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator. For FY 2013, President Obama requested $6.42 billion, including more than $4.54 billion for bilateral HIV/AIDS programs and $1.65 billion for the Global Fund.For FY 2014, President Obama is requesting $6.73 billion, including more than

title: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
text: has provided more than $7 billion to the fund. Of the estimated 8 million individuals in low- and middle-income countries who currently receive treatment, nearly 6.8 million receive support through PEPFAR bilateral programs, the Global Fund, or both. PEPFAR reports to Congress on an annual basis, providing programmatic and financial data as required by law. The Ninth Annual Report to Congress on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is available on the official PEPFAR website, as are more specific reports, financial information and other information. Global AIDS funding is provided in the Foreign Operations and Labor, Health and Human

title: Global Health Initiatives
text: launched the first phase of its response to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa – the Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP). This came to an end in 2006 when a second phase – Agenda for Action 2007-11 – came into effect. Tracking funding from GHIs poses challenges. However, it is possible to determine the amounts of funding GHIs commit and disburse from sources such as the OECD CRS online database, as well as data provided by individual GHIs (Figure 1). Since 1989, the World Bank has committed approximately US$4.2bn in loans and credits for programs, and has disbursed US$3.1bn. Of this total, the

title: AIDS Drug Assistance Programs
text: AIDS Drug Assistance Programs AIDS Drug Assistance Programs are a set of programs in all 50-states in the United States that provide Food and Drug Administration-approved HIV treatment drugs to low income patients in the U.S. The programs are administered by each state with funds distributed by the United States government. In June 2007 the program provided coverage for 102,000 or 30% of those infected with HIV in the United States. Drug expenditures were $100.1 million in 2007 and $8.8 million in money spent on helping with insurance payments. This represented 344,600 prescriptions. The total program budget is $1.4 Billion

title: San Francisco
text: HIV. The city of San Francisco has been dramatically increasing expenditure directed towards alleviating the homelessness crisis: spending jumped by $241 million in 2016-17 to total $275 million, compared to a budget of just $34 million the previous year. In 2017-18 the budget for combatting homelessness, much of which is directed towards the building of new shelters and expanding capacity, stood at $305 million. In January 2018 a United Nations special rapporteur on homelessness, Leilani Farha, stated that she was "completely shocked" by San Francisco's homelessness crisis during a visit to the city. She compared the "deplorable conditions" of the

title: Sigma Gamma Rho
text: the sponsoring of national and international programs designed for the improved welfare of all people. The Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative (AAALI) is $16 million, six-year CDC partnership that harnesses the collective strength of some of the nation's leading organizations to fight HIV in populations hardest hit. The effort brings together a wide range of organizations, including civic, social, civil rights and professional organizations, as well as those in government, education and media. While many AAALI partners have longstanding commitments to fighting HIV in their communities, the initiative provides the critical funding needed to allow each group to make HIV