World AIDS Day observance focuses on disproportionate effects on Black community
Jaliyah Williams smiles as balloons are released for the Shelby County Health Department's annual World AIDS Day event at FedExForum on Dec. 1, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Thursday’s observance included a World AIDS Day 2022 proclamation from Mayor Lee Harris and a balloon release to pay tribute to all who are living with HIV/AIDS and remember those who’ve died in the past year.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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