Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative

The Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative (PACPI) is a collaborative enterprise that integrates HIV prevention and treatment. Our mission is to eliminate deaths from pediatric AIDS and to reduce transmission of the virus from mothers to their children in Illinois.

PACPI’s programs include enhanced case management for HIV positive pregnant women, prenatal classes for HIV positive pregnant women, collaboration with the 24/7 Illinois Perinatal HIV Hotline, provision of 24/7 social work on-call service for the Perinatal HIV Hotline and collaboration with the Perinatal Rapid Testing Implementation Initiative in Illinois (PRTII²) to support the rapid testing and identification of preliminarily HIV positive women on labor and delivery units at the 130+ delivering hospitals statewide.

Much of PACPI’s work is done through collaboration with our partners: the Illinois Department of Public Health, PRTII², Illinois perinatal network administrators, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Hotline staff, Dr. Pat Garcia, Dr. Mardge Cohen, Sinai Urban Health Institute, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center and all the nurse managers and staff on labor & delivery at the 130+ birthing hospitals in Illinois.

For more information about PACPI, please visit www.pregnantandpositive.org or contact Anne Statton, Executive Director at info@hivpregnancyhotline.org

For more information on PACPI’s Enhanced Case Management program, please click the link.