City of Philadelphia - File #: 060649

• File #: 060649
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 9/14/2006
• In control: Committee on Public Health and Human Services
• Title: Authorizing the Council Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings regarding the steadily increasing incidents of HIV/AIDS in the city of Philadelphia and further authorizing the Committee to seek advice and recommendations on how Philadelphia can develop policies to stem this HIV/AIDS epidemic especially in minority communities.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Ramos, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Miller, Council President Verna, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Kelly, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember O'Neill
• Indexes: AIDS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
9/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED
9/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
9/14/2006	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Authorizing the Council Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings regarding the steadily increasing incidents of HIV/AIDS in the city of Philadelphia and further authorizing the Committee to seek advice and recommendations on how Philadelphia can develop policies to stem this HIV/AIDS epidemic especially in minority communities.
Body
WHEREAS, Nationally the number of persons living with HIV/AIDS continues to increase significantly; and

WHEREAS, The African American community is disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS representing almost one half of the HIV/AIDS cases but only 13% of the population; and

WHEREAS, AIDS has become the second leading cause of death for all African Americans between the ages of 35-44 and the leading cause of death in African American women between the ages of 25-34 ; and

WHEREAS, These trends explain the rise in African American children being born with HIV; and

WHEREAS, African Americans represent 66% of all HIV/AIDS cases in Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, African American males represent 63% of all the HIV/AIDS cases among males in the city of Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, African American women make up 76% of all the HIV/AIDS cases among women in the city of Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, African American children, age 12 or younger, represent 78% of the HIV/AIDS cases in that age group in the City of Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, African American teens, age 13 to 19 represent 79% of the HIV/AIDS cases in that age group in the City of Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, Nationally and in Philadelphia not all persons with HIV have been tested, diagnosed and reported; and

WHEREAS, The increasing prevalence of persons with HIV/AIDS is challenging our economy and city services in providing medical, prevention and social services for those affected; and

WHEREAS, There is a clear need for culturally appropriate strategies to address the disparities in HIV/AIDS; and

WHEREAS, In the third decade o...