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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), a founding member of the Black Maternal Health Caucus, has introduced the COVID-19 Safe Birthing Act, bold...
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Although racial health disparities have been widely-recognized throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Black women have shouldered the brunt of systemic inequities in health care...
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The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) recently diagnosed racism as a public health epidemic.
In the following piece Peace Voice driector Dr. Tom Hastings and...
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13), and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released the following statement applauding the Centers for...
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As schools reopen this week, vaccine hubs located in Department of Education facilities will be affected. Some sites will be relocated or consolidated, and others will...
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Child advocate Marian Wright-Edelman in the following piece talks about systemic racism in American healthcare, the current impact of health disparities now during the COVID...
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The American Health Care Association representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and other long term care facilities across the country that provide care to approximately five...
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APHA Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD delivered the following statement applauding the Biden-Harris Administration on reaching the goal of giving out 100...
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Today, activists gathered at rallies in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia as part of a day of action calling for pharmaceutical...
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Tucked in the Senate-approved COVID relief bill waiting for President Joe Biden’s signature is the first major expansion of the Affordable Care Act — the health care reform...
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In an op-ed published in the Boston Globe, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and National Medical Association (NMA) President Leon McDougle discussed the vaccine...
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This Sunday is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – a day that may not get the attention of World AIDS Day, but one that is equally important.
On this day, we call...
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The Clinical Management of Patients with COVID-19 course series is developed (by the World Health Organization) for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It...
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today updated New Yorkers on the state's vaccination program.
As of 11AM today, New York's health care distribution sites have received 1,554...
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Residents of Newark, New Jersey have secured safe drinking water protections from lead contamination under a proposed settlement agreement submitted to a federal court...
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