Commissioner Choucair's presentation for NLAAD at The Center on Halsted

1. 2013 National Latino
AIDS Awareness Day
October 17, 2013
Bechara Choucair, MD
Commissioner
Chicago Department of Public Health
@Choucair
City of Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
#NLAAD
Chicago Department of Public Health
Commissioner Bechara Choucair, M.D.

2. HEALTHY CHICAGO
CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
TRANSFORMING THE
HEALTH OF OUR CITY
CHICAGO ANSWERS THE CALL

4. Healthy Chicago
Strategies to Reach
National HIV/AIDS
Strategy- 3 Goals
1. Reduce new HIV infections
2. Increase access to care and
improve health outcomes for
people living with HIV
3. Reducing HIV-related health
disparities

5. Healthy Chicago HIV
Prevention Goal

6. Healthy Chicago Strategies to
Reach National HIV/AIDS
Strategy Goals
1. Reduce new HIV infections
• Support HIV testing for over 58,000 high-risk individuals annually
• Work with partners to distribute 10 million condoms annually
• Implement on-line services to facilitate the identification of partners of newly
diagnosed HIV cases
• Work with hospitals, medical schools and physician residency programs to
encourage integration of opt-out testing in protocols and curricula
• Support partner agencies in the distribution of over three million syringes, in
conjunction with prevention education information, to injection drug users

7. Healthy Chicago Strategies to
Reach NHAS Goals
2. Increase access to care and improve health
outcomes for people living with HIV
 Lead efforts and develop partnerships/collaborations to expand
linkage to care for HIV-positive individuals currently not in care
 Link 80% of individuals who were previously HIV-positive and
newly diagnosed with syphilis to care within 90 days of
diagnosis
 Promote integration of hepatitis, tuberculosis, and STI testing for
HIV infected persons
 Implement the Get Real, Get Care campaign to promote linkage
to care for persons newly diagnosed with HIV

8. Healthy Chicago Strategies to
Reach the NHAS Goals
3. Reducing HIV-related health disparities
• Pilot combination prevention strategies in
communities with the highest incidence and
prevalence of HIV
• Implement the Greater Than campaign to
deliver prevention messages.

9. Changes in Chicago’s
HIV Epidemic

10. Trends in HIV Infection
Diagnoses, Chicago

11. HIV Infection Diagnoses
by Race/Gender and Risk

12. Latino MSM HIV
Infections by Age

13. Unrecognized HIV
Infection by Race,
NHBS Chicago 2011
Black
White
Hispanic
Total
Total
HIV +
#
46
35
14
Unaware HIV +
2008
#
16
3
4
(%)
35
9
21
(%)
66
23
50
95
23
24
50

14. HIV Infection Diagnosis Rate (per 100,000)
by Community Area, Chicago, through 2011
No Cases/Small
Numbers (suppressed)
1
9
2
10
76
9.4 - 25.5
12
77
13
11
25.6 - 39.7
4
17
18
1 Rogers Park
2 West Ridge
3 Uptown
4 Lincoln Square
5 North Center
6 Lake View
7 Lincoln Park
8 Near North Side
9 Edison Park
10 Norwood Park
11 Jefferson Park
12 Forest Glen
13 North Park
14 Albany Park
15 Portage Park
16 Irving Park
17 Dunning
18 Montclare
19 Belmont Cragin
20 Hermosa
21 Avondale
22 Logan Square
23 Humboldt Park
24 West Town
25 Austin
26 West Garfield Park
27 East Garfield Park
28 Near West Side
29 North Lawndale
30 South Lawndale
31 Lower West Side
32 Loop
33 Near South Side
34 Armour Square
35 Douglas
36 Oakland
37 Fuller Park
38 Grand Boulevard
39 Kenwood
40 Washington Park
41 Hyde Park
42 Woodlawn
43 South Shore
44 Chatham
45 Avalon Park
46 South Chicago
47 Burnside
48 Calumet Heights
49 Roseland
50 Pullman
51 South Deering
52 East Side
53 West Pullman
54 Riverdale
55 Hegewisch
56 Garfield Ridge
57 Archer Heights
58 Brighton Park
59 Mckinley Park
60 Bridgeport
61 New City
62 West Elsdon
63 Gage Park
64 Clearing
65 West Lawn
66 Chicago Lawn
67 West Englewood
68 Englewood
69 Greater Grand Crossing
70 Ashburn
71 Auburn Gresham
72 Beverly
73 Washington Heights
74 Mount Greenwood
75 Morgan Park
76 Ohare
77 Edgewater
3
16
15
5
25
22
20
64.1 - 108.2
6
21
19
8
27
26
Highest Number of Latino PLWHA
• Logan Square
7
24
23
Chicago Communities
39.8 - 64.0
14
32
28
29
Highest number of Latino Males
Living with HIV/AIDS
• Uptown
33
31
30
60
59
34
35
36
58
57
56
38
37
61
63
62
64
66
65
39
41
40
67
69
70
71
43
45
44
47
72
46
48
73
49
74
Highest Number of New Infections
Among Latinos
• Lakeview
42
68
52
50
51
75
53
54
55
Highest Number of New Infections
Among Latino Males
• Rogers Park

15. 2010 HIV Continuum of Care
*Percentage of 2009 diagnoses linked to care within 3 months

16. Conclusion:
Putting Data To Use
•We know how many people have HIV/AIDS
•We know how many new diagnoses we have
every year
•We know which neighborhood affected
•We know how sexual partners are found

17. BUILDING ON & ENGAGING
PARTNERSHIPS

18. Commit to Speak

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