The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) will award $1.18 million in grants to 61 Chicago-area organizations for AIDS prevention, care, advocacy, housing, and capacity-building projects this week.
AFC will grant $370,000 to agencies participating in AFC’s Chicago Housing for Health Partnership (CHHP). The first of its kind in the nation, CHHP will help homeless people with HIV, cancer, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions improve their health and achieve housing stability.
Through a grant from the Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative, AFC will award $117,245 to Sinai Health Systems and the University of Chicago to provide intensive case management services to HIV-positive pregnant women as a strategy to eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission.
AFC will also grant $640,000 to 55 community-based organizations providing an array of HIV prevention, care, and other direct services. More than half of these awards benefit organizations that provide HIV/AIDS prevention, education, and risk-reduction programs.
Another $52,500 is earmarked for grants through the National AIDS Fund’s AmeriCorps program and Chicago Dancers United.