Leone recognized for service to HIV/STD care in North Carolina
December 16, 2008 | |
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Peter A. Leone, MD, adjunct associate professor of epidemiology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, has received the 2008 Marty Prairie Award from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch. The award is given to individuals or organizations whose work with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD) “exhibits distinguished, bold and innovative community service and/or advocacy that positively impacts North Carolina.” Leone is associate professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases. He has served as medical director of the North Carolina HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch since 2001, worked on various sexually transmitted disease programs in nearly all of the state’s 100 counties and represents North Carolina at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Health and Human Services. <p”> <p”> Evelyn Foust, state AIDS director for North Carolina, said Leone was given the award for “his passionate work in helping to shape more responsive and current national policy regarding the HIV/STD screening and treatment programs, and for his steadfast commitment to directly helping people living with HIV/AIDS and other STDs.”The award is named in memory of Marty L. Prairie, a long-term survivor of HIV/AIDS who died in 2001. Prairie was an educator and activist for the prevention of HIV/AIDS, STDs, tuberculosis and alcohol and substance abuse, especially among minorities, the homeless and gay men of color. <p”> <p”> <p”> # # #
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<p”> <p”> <p”> For more information, visit: http://globalhealth.unc.edu/news.php.School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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