Make a confidential referral to your local HIV Care Connect office.
Illinois HIV Care Connect is an extensive, statewide network of medical case management, health care and support services for people living with HIV. Your referral can help HIV+ individuals find the services they need to achieve optimal health and self-sufficiency. If you are HIV+ and want to refer yourself, you may do so.
A personal case manager helps HIV+ individuals who enroll to find needed services.
Each enrolled person receives confidential medical case management services at no charge, regardless of income.
HIV Care Connect provides access to health care and a broad range of support services.
Services are provided through a network of eight regional offices supported by federal Ryan White Part B grants.
Training and educational opportunities
For your convenience, Illinois HIV Care Connect has links to continually updated information about training and educational programs for providers, case managers and HIV+ individuals.
HIV infection remains a serious problem in Illinois.
About one-quarter – or 10,000 – of the 40,000 HIV+ Illinois residents do not know they are HIV+, according to state health experts.
To stop the progression and transmission of HIV-related disease, the CDC has recommended that all individuals age 13-64 be tested for HIV infection. Those wishing not to be tested can choose to decline or “opt-out.”
The state of Illinois has adopted the CDC’s recommendation as law. As a result, the Illinois Department of Public Health expects that increased numbers of individuals will be diagnosed as HIV+, making referrals to HIV Care Connect an important way to contain the progression and spread of HIV infection.
A project of the Illinois Public Health Association, Illinois HIV Care Connect is funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health