Record #: O2022-3961   
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 12/14/2022 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Joint Committee: Health and Human Relations; Budget and Government Operations
Final action: 5/24/2023
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 2 and 7 by modifying Section 2-112-110 and adding new Section 7-20-50 regarding Chicago African-American HIV/AIDS Response Fund
Sponsors: Sawyer, Roderick T.
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 112 Dept. of Public Health, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 7 - Health & Safety - Ch. 20 Contagious & Epidemic Diseases
Attachments: 1. O2022-3961.pdf
Related files: R2023-766
ORDINANCE

WHEREAS, in 2005, the Illinois General Assembly published findings that HIV/AIDS in the African-American community is a crisis separate and apart from the overall issue of HIV/AIDS in other communities; and

WHEREAS, to mitigate this ongoing crisis, the legislature passed Public Act 94-629 that established the African-American HIV/AIDS Response Fund used for grants to programs dedicated to preventing the transmission of HIV in impacted African American communities as well as other programs and activities including, but not limited to, preventing and treating HIV/AIDS, the creation of an HIV/AIDS service delivery system, and the administration of the act; and

WHEREAS funding comes from appropriations by the General Assembly, federal funds, and other public resources to provide funding for communities in Illinois to create an HIV/AIDS service delivery system that reduces the disparity of HIV infection and AIDS cases concentrated in impacted African-American neighborhoods; and

WHEREAS, since more than 50% of all recently diagnosed cases affect African-American Chicagoans, a City of Chicago African-American HIV/AIDS Response Fund administered by the Department of Public Health shall be created. Furthermore, a line-item shall be added to the City of Chicago's Department of Health budget titled "Chicago African-American HIV/AIDS Response Fund". An equitable portion of funds appropriated annually by the City of Chicago for HIV/AIDS mitigation shall be set aside to fund this line item; and

WHEREAS, when providing grants pursuant to this fund, the Department of Public Health shall give priority to the development of comprehensive medical and social services in a clinical setting to African-Americans at risk of infection from or infected with HIV/AIDS in neighborhoods of Chicago determined as having the highest concentration of African-Americans living with this disease and

WHEREAS the Chicago Department of Public Health, acknowledging the real challenges that ...

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