‘Health’ Archives
Haiti Struggles with Humanitarian Disaster
In Haiti, as many as 1,000 people have died and an estimated one million left homeless after the impoverished country was hit by four major storms and hurricanes in less than a month. We speak to the renowned physician Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, a [Read More]
Black America: A Neglected Priority in Global AIDS Epidemic
According to a new report by the Black AIDS Institute, if blacks in the United States constituted their own country, that nation would rank sixteenth in the world in the number of people living with HIV. Two percent of adult black Americans are infected with the virus, and [Read More]
Democracy Now! | Sludge Tested As Lead-Poisoning Fix in Poor, Black Neighborhoods
In case you thought they weren’t experimenting on us anymore…. Lawmakers and the NAACP are calling for an investigation into reports that federally funded scientific experiments in 2000 spread sewage sludge on yards in poor, black neighborhoods to test if it [Read More]
Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for the Nation
Life expectancy for the nation as a whole has increased, but the affluent have made greater gains, researchers said. New government research has found “large and growing†disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of [Read More]
NY Bill to Declare Abortion a Fundamental Right for Women is Top Legislative Priority for Gov. Spitzer
So this morning I hear this on Democracy Now! Pro-choice activists are gathering around the country today to mark the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. In Albany, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is addressing the Family Planning Advocates of New York [Read More]
Harriet Washington’s “Medical Apartheid” and Edwidge Danticat’s “Brother, I’m Dying” win National Book Critics Circle Awards
“Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation, abuse and neglect of African Americans. The book reveals the hidden [Read More]
