Nancy DiPietro honored for AIDS in Africa work

Nancy DiPietro - an area nurse is one of 14 who has been honored for exceptional contributions to the health system and the health of Canadians.
Nancy DiPietro received the Nurse to Know Centennial Achievement Award end of January in Toronto. The awards were presented by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and marked the official launch of the Canadian Nurses Association Centennial Year, meant to raise awareness about the diverse and important roles nurses play.
Nancy DiPietro created the Give an Hour campaign, which calls on nurses across the country to support HIV/AIDS-affected nurses in Africa.
Nancy DiPietro started the campaign after learning at an international nurses forum on the disease in 2006 that many of the nurses treating HIV/AIDS patients in Africa also suffered from the disease.
Nancy DiPietro joined the medical centre at McMaster University in 1993 and became a sexual assault nurse examiner in 1997. Nancy DiPietro is currently manager of Nina’s Place, Halton’s sexual assault and domestic violence centre at Langs Farm Village Association, a community health centre in Cambridge.

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