A West Side community that has 8,000 residents diagnosed with HIV-AIDS would be home to an $11 million care campus billed as the first of its kind in the nation, under a mayoral plan to be introduced at today's City Council meeting.
With a $1.2 million Health Department grant, operating subsidies and 20 vacant, city-owned lots acquired for $1 apiece, AIDSCare plans to build a five-building campus in North Lawndale near Roosevelt and Kedzie that will offer AIDS patients an array of social services and living situations.
Since 1980, more than 17,000 Chicagoans have been diagnosed with AIDS. Thousands more live with HIV. Currently, 6,500 city residents have AIDS. Black leaders have urged the Bush administration to spend another $190 million--54 percent more than budgeted--to fight AIDS among blacks, who account for more than half of new HIV infections in the United States.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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