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U.S. News

Kentucky: Meeting to Focus on AIDS, Blacks

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

September 9, 2003

The African-American Leadership Conference on HIV/AIDS will be held Sept. 12-13 at the Holiday Inn North in Lexington, Ky. The Kentucky Department for Public Health HIV/AIDS Branch will sponsor the conference, which is being held in conjunction with the Roots & Heritage Festival. In Kentucky, black people make up 7 percent of the population, based on 2001 estimates, but represented 37 percent of newly diagnosed AIDS cases that year. For information, telephone HIV Prevention Minority Initiatives Coordinator Ramonda Yocum at 502-564-6539.

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Adapted from:
Lexington Herald Leader
09.03.03

  
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This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
 
 

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