The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), on World AIDS Day, celebrates that HIV diagnoses in Chicago hit a new record low after five consecutive years of declines. CDPH’s 2017 HIV/STI Surveillance Report shows a 15 percent decrease in residents newly diagnosed with HIV in 2017 compared to one year earlier. This continued decrease is supported by Chicago’s Getting to Zero initiative with the goal of effectively eliminating all new diagnoses of HIV in Chicago within the next decade. Chicago is also making tremendous gains to reach the national HIV/AIDS strategy of having 85 percent of new diagnosis linked to care within one month of diagnosis. This Surveillance Report shows that 82 percent of those newly diagnosed with HIV in Chicago were linked to HIV medical care within one month of diagnosis. That is up from 80 percent in 2016 and ahead of national rates. Research shows the sooner a person living with HIV starts medications, the healthier they can be. In 2017, only 752 residents newly diagnosed with HIV compared to 839 in 2016, and down 60 percent from 1,850 in 2001, the height of new HIV diagnoses in the city.