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At the end of 2004, after five years as a senior consultant at the Chicago
Department of Public Health, international AIDS advocate Jim Pickett
began his current position as Director of Advocacy at the AIDS
Foundation of Chicago. As AFC's representative on Capitol Hill, Jim
worked closely with diverse stakeholders in Illinois and across the United States
in helping shape and advance Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization
legislation, which was signed into law in 2007. As a leading advocate
for new HIV prevention strategies, Jim co-founded the International
Rectal Microbicide Advocates in 2005. Jim currently serves as the
co-chair of the Chicago Task Force on LGBT Substance Use and Abuse and
is the principal creator of the new gay men's sexual health and wellness
Web site and blog called LifeLube.org. He ran his fourth marathon in 2007
through the National AIDS Marathon Training Program and was inducted
into Chicago's Lesbian and Gay Hall of Fame in 2005. He has been living
with HIV since 1995, and currently only runs to the cake and pie shop.
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