Commissioners Gregory Davila and Jimmy Weekley, Mayor Teri Johnston, Monroe County Health Department’s Terry Nealy, and Commissioners Clayton Lopez, Sam Kaufman and Billy Wardlow. Attending virtually on the monitor is Commissioner Mary Lou Hoover.

City Commissioners proclaimed Feb 7th National Black HIB/AIDS Awareness Day

Key West Commissioner Clayton Lopez, his fellow commissioners and Mayor Teri Johnston have proclaimed February 7th as National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

According to the most recent statistics available from 2018 one in 39 black men and one in every 65 black women in Florida were living with HIV. Black, gay and bisexual mean have the highest number of new HIV diagnoses.

Terry Nealy, of the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County, accepted the proclamation. He noted that The health department works hard to end new infections while fighting the stigma, discrimination and other barriers that keep this epidemic alive.

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