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HIV/AIDS Conference In Raleigh

瓜神app | By Leoneda Inge

Published June 5, 2012 at 7:00 AM EDT

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A network of health experts, policymakers and advocates in the fight against AIDS are gathering for a conference today near the state capitol.

Leoneda Inge: The rate of new HIV cases in North Carolina is 41-percent higher than the national rate. Lisa Hazirjian is the Executive Director of North Carolina AIDS Action Network.

Lisa Hazirjian: It is very scary and it鈥檚 part of a southern situation where throughout the southeast we see disproportionately high incidents of new HIV infections.

But Hazirjian says UNC research shows, early treatment of HIV dramatically reduces new infections. She says one main goal of the HIV-AIDS Advocacy Conference is to push lawmakers for continued funding for prevention efforts, especially in rural areas.

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 瓜神app's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 瓜神app as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital 瓜神app Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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