City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0184R

• File #: 10-0184R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - HIV/AIDS State of Emergency
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 1/11/2010
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/24/2011
• Title: Informational Hearing - HIV/AIDS State of Emergency FOR the purpose of calling on City, State, and federal agencies to update the Council about their efforts to alleviate the AIDS pandemic in Baltimore and encouraging greater ongoing collaboration between government at all levels and community partners working to address the HIV/AIDS state of emergency in Baltimore City.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Warren Branch, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, William H. Cole, IV, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: HIV/AIDS, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/24/2011	0	City Council	Withdrawn
12/6/2010	0	The City Council	Reassigned
2/1/2010	0	Public Safety and Health Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
1/14/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/14/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/11/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
1/11/2010	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmembers Clarke and Young

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - HIV/AIDS State of Emergency

FOR the purpose of calling on City, State, and federal agencies to update the Council about their efforts to alleviate the AIDS pandemic in Baltimore and encouraging greater ongoing collaboration between government at all levels and community partners working to address the HIV/AIDS state of emergency in Baltimore City.
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Recitals

The worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic has a particularly severe impact on Baltimore City. UNAIDS estimated that in 2007 there were 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide and 2 million AIDS related deaths. 13,269 of these 33 million people lived in Baltimore. This means that 1 in every 48 Baltimoreans is living with HIV or AIDS. In many neighborhoods the percentage of people living with HIV/AIDS is greater than 4% of all residents. Although City residents make up only 11% of Maryland’s population, 47% of the State’s HIV/AIDS cases are found in Baltimore. The Baltimore-Towson metro area had the second highest AIDS case report rate of any major metro area in the United States, and by some estimates every 8 hours another Baltimorean is infected with HIV.

In recognition of the fact that the impacts of this pandemic touch the lives of far too many City residents on a daily basis, Baltimore declared an ongoing HIV/AID...