Meals and Nutrition Program Endures through the Pandemic

GMHC volunteer preparing food packages for clients.

Food insecurity is one of the most common challenges facing GMHC’s consumers, especially those living with HIV. Many are low-income and struggle to meet the basic necessities of life.   Previous Next “When people don’t know where their next meal will come from, their health may not be a priority,” said Josie Thiele, director of GMHC’s […]

Long-Term Donor Sustains Memory of Friend Who Died of AIDS

Marty Bernstein and Joyce Crain

As a professional artist, Joyce Crain creates installations for public and corporate spaces. During the holidays, she also likes to set up a Christmas village scene from her childhood. When her late friend Marty Bernstein came to her home to celebrate the holidays, he always switched the couple in the sleigh and the couple on […]

Activist Brings Education and Empowerment to People Living with HIV: Q&A with ACRIA Lead Trainer Mark Milano

Mark Milano

Back in 1982, Mark Milano had suffered for over a year with inexplicable weight loss and other illnesses that landed him in Chicago emergency rooms on multiple occasions. At the time, the medical establishment was only just beginning to gain an understanding of AIDS. When a doctor finally told him he probably had this serious […]