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New U.S. Plan to Improve Health Care for Minorities

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released what it’s calling the most comprehensive action plan and strategy yet to expand health care access and improve minority health.

Americans Like Their Health Care, But Think The System Stinks

Fifty-five percent of adults surveyed gave the U.S. health care system a C or D, when asked to assign it a grade. Eleven percent gave it an F.

The Future of Nursing

Healthcare is facing unprecedented challenges, and nurses must play a major role in meeting them

Georgia Department of Community Health and the Black AIDS Institute Bring “Greater Than AIDS” HBCU Testing Tour to Georgia

The Georgia Department of Health and the Black AIDS Institute have partnered to present the Georgia>AIDS HBCU Testing Tour.

Community Colleges

Report Suggests Associate’s Degrees in Nursing Are Sufficient for Employment in the Field

AACC report finds no significant differences between competencies of nurses with bachelor’s degrees vs those with associate’s degrees.

Jemima Pierre-Jacques

Faculty & Staff

National League for Nursing’s 2011 Education Summit to Focus on Future of Nursing

This year’s summit will focus on the much heralded recommendations contained in “The Future of Nursing,” a report issued last fall by the Institute of Medicine, based on work done by the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing.

Are Mississippi’s HIV/AIDS Policies Making the Epidemic Worse for Black People?

Human Rights Watch found that the state’s failure to support sorely needed AIDS programs is negatively impacting the African-American community.

Report: Study of gay, transgender health needed

Scientists only recently learned how certain diseases affect women differently than men, and blacks differently than whites. Now a major new report says it’s time to study the unique health needs of gay and transgender people, too.

Aetna Announces Funding for Research Projects Aimed at Reducing Infant Mortality Among African-Americans

Aetna and the Aetna Foundation today announced funding in support of three research projects aimed at driving down rates of infant mortality among African-American newborns, who are more than twice as likely to die in their first year as white infants.

Nutrition class teaches South L.A. women to put health first

A nutrition class launched by the National Urban League is helping South Los Angeles women make healthier nutritional choices.

Latinos and health: Blessed and cursed at the same time?

For Latinos, higher life expectancy is balanced by a higher risk of diabetes, asthma, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and other afflictions

Despite the health and economic benefits, breast-feeding among African-American mothers is disturbingly low

A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in the journal Pediatrics found that only 40 percent of black women had ever breast-fed, compared with 70 percent of white women and 72 percent of Hispanic women.

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