Category: African-American

BWW Review: This RENT is Spent, and Passion is Not Enough to Pay the Piper at the Artscape Arena

If RENT were bout about the life experiences of a young, African-American, lesbian lawyer, the current revival of Jonathan Larson’s 1997 rock opera at the Artscape Arena might be worth its hefty ticket price of R295 and the production might be as relevant as it claims to be. As it is, Namisa Mdlalose’s truly wonderful performance as Joanne is but a supporting story to a central narrative about the anguish of two straight white men, one of whom cries white tears magical enough to bring back from the dead his Latinx girlfriend – even if this undermines the show’s ‘no day but today’ credo in the process.

Additionally, less than half of Blacks living with the virus have an undetectable viral load.

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report highlights the critical need for improvement in tackling the HIV epidemic among African Americans. Publishing their findings in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report to mark National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which is February 7, researchers examined National HIV Surveillance System data through 2015 on African Americans 13 years of age or older in 33 jurisdictions with complete laboratory reporting.

Organization continues fight against sickle cell anemia

Central Texas Sickle Cell Anemia Association opened its doors to help people in the community battle the disease, and even though their founder recently passed, the organization plans to continue their legacy of helping the community heal. Sickle cell anemia is a blood disorder in which blood cells that should be doughnut-shaped are shaped like a sickle.

Commentary: Trump and Obama’s legacy

… to go down in history. Obamacare was passed into law to give some 20 million Americans the opportunity to purchase health Insurance through private Insurance companies subsidized by the Federal government. But from the start it wasn’t presented …

Cervical cancer death rates higher Jan. 25, 2017, 12:43 Am Ast

PATIENT CARE: African-American women are less likely to develop most cancers, but they too are dying more than white women. – Photo courtesy http://thegrio.com/ A woman’s risk of dying of cervical cancer is higher than previously believed, particularly among older and black women, a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests.

New cervical cancer research is personal

A new study published earlier this week in the journal Cancer reveals that mortality rates are far higher and racial disparities in mortality are far larger than was previously thought for cervical cancer, a disease that can be screened for and for which there is a vaccine. As an Osteopathic Family Physician who provides women’s health services to my patients as well as medical care for general medical conditions, these findings directly impact my patients and my profession.

U.S. Deaths From Cervical Cancer May Be Underestimated

The number of women who die from cervical cancer in the United States may be higher than previously believed, and the risk is greatest among older and black women, a new study finds. “This is a preventable disease and women should not be getting it, let alone dying from it,” study leader Anne Rositch, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a Hopkins news release.

U.S. Deaths From Cervical Cancer May Be Underestimated

The number of women who die from cervical cancer in the United States may be higher than previously believed, and the risk is greatest among older and black women, a new study finds. “This is a preventable disease and women should not be getting it, let alone dying from it,” study leader Anne Rositch, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a Hopkins news release.

Three Montego Bay schools to benefit from visit of – US-based organisation

Three schools in Montego Bay will benefit from a working visit by US-based The Links, Incorporated from January 24 – 28. Carrying art supplies, technology equipment, oral health-care kits, and a mission to transform communities, a 120-member strong delegation from the friendship and service organisation of African-American women is heading to western Jamaica on what they say is a “four-day quest to build lasting partnerships that will enhance the health, welfare, and future of the island’s schools and medical communities”. The visit is The Links’ second trip to Jamaica and part of a three-pronged Global Linkage Initiative slated for completion in 2018.

Historic Black School Teaches Effective Parental Involvement &…

A coalition, formed to strengthen the community, school connection and improve Black students’ academic achievement, is helping Booker T. Washington take the next step. On Jan. 15, coalition representatives, community leaders, and the school’s principal will gather at Douglas Memorial Community Church in Baltimore to announce the launch of the Strengthening Families Program and teacher development plan at Booker T. Washington.

Disparity seen in clinical research trials

… Asians 5.6 percent. A 1993 law requires that all medical research conducted or paid for by the National Institutes of Health include enough minorities and women to determine whether they respond to treatment differently than other groups. Minority …

Discrimination interacts with certain genetic variants to negatively impact health

It’s no secret that discrimination is stressful for those who experience it, but turns out the issue is more than skin deep – these stressors can interact with our genetics to negatively impact our health, a new University of Florida study shows. Study researchers developed a novel measure of unfair treatment to study the effects of discrimination on health, particularly with respect to racial disparities in complex diseases, which are illnesses resulting from both genetic and environmental factors.