Browsing: Health

Some experts believe that Mississippi’s conservative politics, underfunding of HIV/AIDS programs and growing socioeconomic disparities both fuel the epidemic and increase the likelihood that more HIV-positive men and women will drop out of care—if they receive it at all.

The increased risk of death for African American infants is attributed to a number of preventable factors including, lack of prenatal care, maternal diabetes or obesity, untreated maternal infection and an overall lack of awareness and education.

The Florida Department of Health (DOH) recognizes May as National Asthma Awareness Month

There is also much evidence to support the notion that racism and discrimination play a role in the shortened life expectancy of Black Americans

Scientists have discovered a new strain of gonorrhea-causing bacteria in Japan that is resistant to available treatments.

Heterophobia is the New Black By Raynard Jackson Last week, I had to make one of the most difficult announcements of my life—I told my family…

hysterectomies are being performed due to fibroid tumors and removal of them, ‘Black’ women

cardiologist shares what we can learn from people who live to be 100 and beyond and also points out the lifestyles and habits of those people that are believed to be behind their long lives.

Mississippi’s Roadblocks to health-care reform The Black AIDS Institute       The road to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is smoother in some states than in others.…