Tag Archives: Equity

Report Shows How to Reach Health Care Equity, Why It Matters

Feb. 2, 2022 — Dejuan Patterson was returning dwelling from work one night time when he was robbed at gunpoint and shot within the head. Seventeen years previous, he was left to die. Although medical doctors saved his life, the Baltimore native, who’s now 33, questions the remedy he obtained from the hospital. He had […]

Nonprofit Addresses Health Equity by Providing Safer Surgeries

COMMENTARY By Susannah Schaefer, government vice chair, president, and chief government officer of Smile Train   As the worldwide well being care group considers the right way to create well being care methods that work for everybody – together with essentially the most susceptible amongst us – a subject that sparks widespread dialog is well […]

HIV Prevention Has An Equity Problem. Here’s What Needs to Change

Michael Chancley, communications director, PrEP4All, and PrEP consumer. AIDSVu.org: “Local Data: Louisiana.” CDC.gov: “HIV and Women: HIV Diagnoses,” “HIV Surveillance Data Tables. Table 3a,” “PrEP Effectiveness,” FDA.gov: “FDA Approves First Injectable Treatment for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis,” Dec. 20, 2021, “FDA approves second drug to prevention HIV infection as part of ongoing efforts to end the […]

A New Era in Hope and Health Equity: Malaria Vaccinations

  By Sophia Ononye-Onyia, PhD, MPH, MBA I used to be born in Enugu, Nigeria. Malaria was a grotesque actuality for all of us. In reality, a baby dies from malaria each two minutes, in line with the World Health Organization (WHO). So, I used to be clearly ecstatic when the WHO introduced its advice for widespread […]