The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that so far this year, the city has served 1,814 people living with HIV in Chicago as the city continues to expand HIV primary care support. Now in the third year of the HIV primary care expansion partnership between CDPH, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Howard Brown Health, the program is on track to serve five times as many individuals than were served in prior years. Last year, Mayor Emanuel and CDPH announced that new HIV diagnoses in Chicago hit a new record low after 15 years of declines. CDPH’s 2017 HIV/STI Surveillance Report showed a 55 percent decrease in residents newly diagnosed with HIV in 2016 compared to 2011.  Further, CDPH has launched an acute HIV hotline, 312-74-ACUTE (312-742-2883), recognizing the short timeframe and highly infectious nature of the acute HIV infection phase, this will ensure services are provided to acutely infected HIV individuals in a timely and efficient manner. For more information on the Primary Care clinics and CDPH’s HIV prevention, treatment and surveillance initiatives please visit www.cityofchicago.org/health.