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Open Door Clinic Mission: to improve health & wellness by providing education, prevention, screening & treatment of HIV/AIDS & other sexually transmitted infections.
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'All Things Chocolate' 2010 March 13, 2010, in the St. Charles Country Club at 1250 Country Club Road, St. Charles, IL 60174.
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ODC News Letter

May - Volume 3, Issue 5 -

White blood cells are an important part of the immune system. HIV invades and destroys certain white blood cells called CD4+ cells. If too many CD4+ cells are destroyed, the body can no longer defend itself against infection. The last stage of HIV infection is AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). People with AIDS have a low number of CD4+ cells and get infections or cancers that rarely occur in healthy people. These can be deadly.

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Chicago AIDS Walk

Click above and join “Open Door Clinic’s” walk team and help raise money for Open Door Clinic.

Questions??? Email: lynnek@opendoorclinic.org

 

Nine and a Half Minutes

Before we can stop any epidemic, we first have to recognize the magnitude of the disease. HIV is still a threat across the United States. And even though there are treatments to help people with HIV live longer than ever before, AIDS is still a significant health issue. Surprised? Get the facts:

• Every 9½ minutes (on average), someone in the United States is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
• In 2006, an estimated 56,300 people became infected with HIV.
• More than 1 million people in the United States are living with HIV.
• Of those 1 million people living with HIV, 1 out of 5 do not know they are infected. (People who have HIV but don't know it can unknowingly pass the virus to their partners.)
• Despite new therapies, people with HIV still develop AIDS.
• Over 1 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with AIDS.
• More than 14,000 people with AIDS still die each year in the United States.

In 2008, CDC developed new estimates for the annual number of HIV infections—which suggest that about 56,300 new HIV infections occur each year. This estimate is a national average. CDC arrived at the 9½ minutes figure by dividing the number of minutes in one year by the 56,300 new HIV infections that were estimated for 2006. This result indicates that, on average, one new HIV infection occurs every 9.34 minutes in a year. For more information on the 56,300 estimate visit the HIV Incidence section of the CDC HIV Web site.

 

 

AIDS Quilt

When was the last time you saw the AIDS Quilt? Open Door Clinic will be bringing pieces of the quilt to Elgin for World AIDS Day 2009. Is there a particular panel you want to have here in Elgin? Please email us the Block and Panel number and we will try to have those quilt panels here for World AIDS Day 2009. Email your request to: lynnek@opendoorclinic.org

Donate now to help us bring in 20 - 12’x12’ panels. Cost $3,000. Click here to donate now.

December 1st, World AIDS Day 2009 – Breakfast with Jeanne White-Ginder (Ryan White’s mother) Restaurant TBA

 

AIDS Clock

The AIDS Clock has been ticking since 1997. UNFPA created the clock as way to acknowledge both the toll of the epidemic and the partnership that was formed to tackle it, UNAIDS (the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS).

The first AIDS Clock was presented to UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot at the United Nations public lobby in New York, where thousands of people had the opportunity to comprehend, in a visual and visceral way, the scale of the epidemic. The exhibit then traveled to Vancouver, the Hague and elsewhere.

When the AIDS Clock was unveiled, more than 24 million people were living with HIV. Most of those people have died by now. In each subsequent year, the deaths and the numbers of newly infected persons have continued to rise, and the numbers of people living with AIDS now exceeds 40 million.

In 2000, the AIDS Clock became a web-based feature. It was revised and improved in 2006. As long as it continues to tick, it serves as a reminder that time is running out in many lives and that accelerated measures are needed to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Other organizations, schools and networks are encouraged to link to and use this resource in any way they can to spread awareness of the epidemic and the programmes that are combatting it.

Click here for more information about the AIDS Clock program.

 

The Legacy Campaign

Despite the progress that has been made in the medical treatment of HIV/AIDS, people living with this virus still carry with them the additional burden of the stigma and discrimination this disease brings with it. Living with HIV/AIDS in the Fox River Valley of Illinois is no different. One thing we do know: the impact of personally knowing someone who is HIV+ dramatically minimizes fear, stigma and discrimination.

Open Door Clinic has begun to address these issues by undertaking the challenge of collecting and making accessible the personal stories of HIV+ people through "The Legacy Campaign." The stories compiled in this book are the first collected and demonstrate the diversity of lives impacted by HIV/AIDS here in the Heartland. They offer a powerful glimpse into the personal struggles of these courageous individuals who hope that their stories can contribute to limiting new infections while correcting and eliminating unwarranted fears, stigmas, and discriminatory practices where they live and work.

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