Gov. Chiles Calls Statewide Business Conference on AIDS

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Gov. Chiles Calls Statewide Business Conference on AIDS

PR Newswire (10/21/93)

Lake Buena Vista, Fla.--Gov. Lawton Chiles challenged Florida business and labor leaders to join the battle against AIDS by creating education programs for the workplace that will help employees and their families better understand the disease. Chiles said the increasing spread of the virus worldwide "mandates that government and business work together to meet the challenge in our communities and our work force." He delivered his challenge at the Governor's Leadership Conference on AIDS, a statewide conference on workplace-based HIV/AIDS programs. It was sponsored in conjunction with "Business Responds to AIDS," a program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With 33,000 total reported cases, Florida ranks third in the nation in AIDS cases. Eighty-five percent fall into the category of people aged 20 to 49, which is three of every four people in the state's labor force.

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