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The Black crisis in the midst of the coronavirus crisis
“Even though Black people are in the emerging hot zones… Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, New Orleans…we lack the ethnic
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Source: The Orlando Advocate
Angola: COVID-19 - Five New Infections, One More Death Reported
Luanda — Five new infections and one more death have been reported in the last 24 hours in Angola, bringing the total numbers in the country to 118 and five
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Association of Black Cardiologists Creates COVID-19 FAQ Community Watch
May 18, the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) issued patient-centered frequently asked questions (FAQ Community Watch) related to COVID-19 for its community health advocates and
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Danger Looms As Nigerians Jettison Safety Measures
Abuja, Kano, Gombe, Makurdi, Benin, Jos, Lagos — Medical experts have warned that Nigeria could experience dire consequences in the rate of COVID-19 cases and deaths if people continued to violate protective measures against the
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Source: allAfrica.com
Black People Suffer Disproportionately from Dementia Crisis
Alzheimer’s disease (the most common type of dementia) is the 6th leading cause of death among White people, but the 4th leading cause of death for Black people like
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Source: The Florida Star
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UNITE Pinellas on tracking COVID-19 in the black community
As planning and quality assurance manager at Pinellas County Government’s Department of Health and Human Services, Reed works to ensure quality outcomes for all the services and contracts the county provides in the
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Achievable Foundation provides unique health care
Carmen Ibarra, the chief executive officer of the Achievable Foundation joined the company because she believed in its mission to provide high quality, integrated health care to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families and other vulnerable
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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — NNPA Partners with #Donate1Post to Help Black-Owned Businesses During COVID-19
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Will Indiana deliver on controlling new COVID-19 infections? | The Crusader Newspaper Group
As state reopens, governor and health officials say increased testing and contact tracing are the solutions
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Africa: HIV and High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy - We're Tracing the Connections
Pre-eclampsia is the development of hypertension after the 20th week of pregnancy in a woman who previously had normal blood
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Keeping Heart Failure at Bay
Put simply, heart failure refers to a condition where the heart cannot supply sufficient oxygen (through the blood) to the rest of the
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Call to action: Post-COVID community focused investment
These areas are defined by traditional redlining practices, lack of infrastructure investment, a dearth of quality health care options, lack of healthy grocery stores, and, more recently, a growing digital
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Congresswoman Karen Bass Says CBC Wants Federal Dollars to Aid the Black Press
During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of
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Coronavirus Pandemic And George Floyd Protests Highlight Health Disparities For Black People – Free Press of Jacksonville
Black people constitute nearly 13% of the U.S. population but made up 23% of all Covid-19 deaths as of June 3, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
Information on nursing home, residential facility clusters to be released Monday
In the last LDH report on the number of clusters, which consist of two or more cases at a single facility, there were 46 identified across the state — just over nine percent of the registered homes in the
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Addressing the Health Concerns of African Americans - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… see that more and more African Americans are taking a proactive approach … in their health,” Croft said. African Americans are widely insured, both through …
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Trinidad woman with COVID-19 flies home from Venezuela
(Trinidad Express) A 63-year-old Trinidad and Tobago national tested positive for Covid-19 virus prior to boarding the aircraft in Venezuela to return
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Men’s Health Month – Q & A With Dr. Kenneth Green
June was Men’s Health Month, and as the month comes to a close, Kaiser Permanente is encouraging men to take care of their health by sharing ways they can take steps to do
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Op-ed Submission: The Impact of COVID-19 in Our Community: Let’s Not Put Our Health at Risk | Afro
New research seems to confirm that, across the nation, the coronavirus has disproportionately impacted black people, with death rates more than twice as high as that for any other
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Can We Handle the Truth About Coronavirus? ⋆
Let me share a few “truths” that not only have many of us heard about, but many things are specific to poor people and African-Americans in this
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Lifetime discrimination linked to increased risk of high blood pressure among African-Americans
African-Americans who had experienced the stress of lifetime discrimination were up to 50 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure than those who reported lower levels of
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Black People Suffer Disproportionately from Dementia Crisis – Free Press of Jacksonville
NNPA NEWSWIRE —By Dr. Lucille Ridgill – One major reason Black people suffer disproportionately from Alzheimer’s is we are underrepresented in dementia research, in part because many of us are unwilling to donate our brains to research or participate in brain studies due to distrust of the medical
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Defender Fit & Fine: Scotty Lindsey
Fitness start: “After seeing my sister suffer with high blood pressure and taking medication after medication, I had to be proactive on helping the sedentary people I know to be more
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Jamaicans praise treatment at quarantine facility
ST ANN — Comfortable rooms, on time meals, lots of food, pleasant and professional staff, are some of the descriptions repeated by individuals quarantined at the Jewels Paradise Cove Hotel in this north eastern Jamaica
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The 18th U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, joins National Newspaper Publishers Coronavirus Pandemic Task Force | Afro
PULL QUOTE: NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I am honored to collaborate with the NNPA on behalf of the American Heart Association to share facts and insights to support the health news and resources shared directly with African American communities,” said Dr. Benjamin, who is also Founder and CEO of
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The Black Crisis In The Midst Of The Coronavirus Crisis
Dr. Maulana Karenga, chair of the Department of Africana Studies at CSU Long Beach, wants the Black community to make sure that physical distancing during the pandemic does not interfere with relationships or establishing
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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — "Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID and Civil Unrest"
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NIH study links cigarette smoking to higher stroke risk in African Americans
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Study Links Trauma of Racism to High Blood Pressure in Black Americans
The lasting echoes of that trauma left Lawrence not at all surprised by a new study linking racism in the United States to an elevated risk of high blood pressure among Black
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Kenya: COVID-19 - National Tally Rises to 3,594 After 137 More Test Positive
He said that the number of samples tested so far stands at 115, 336, adding that Nyeri has nine persons infected by the virus including three health workers who contracted the disease from a patient who died after undergoing surgery
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