PrEP can reduce the risk of sexually transmitted HIV infection by 99%. Discrimination and distrust are two barriers Black gay men face in accessing this lifesaving treatment.
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Mass shootings account for only about 3% of gun homicides in the U.S.
While sunscreen has the potential to reduce skin cancer for light-skinned people, it has never been shown to do the same for Black people. Yet that distinction is lacking in public health messaging.
This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Major league baseball opens today, and few are likely to give race a thought. When Jackie Robinson integrated MLB in 1947, it was a far different story. Did racism lead to Robinson’s early death?
Police killings of black men gain widespread attention, but black men’s life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, a physician who studies health gaps explains.
Blacks are at higher risk for many diseases. This is partly due to poverty, discrimination and lack of access to care. But there may be something different about the higher rates of Alzheimer’s.
Minority patients do better when treated by doctors who share the same race or ethnicity But there’s a problem. Most doctors are white, and only 6% of doctors are black.
The recent death of Elijah Cummings at age 68 underscores a disturbing statistic: black men die, on average, five years younger than white men. A study shows racism’s effects on gene activity.
Two experts ask whether dads are making their health a priority. Evidence suggests not. Pressures to provide income often hold fathers back.
While sunscreen has the potential to reduce skin cancer for light-skinned people, it has never been shown to do the same for Black people.
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. At the root of the injustice that King preached about is structural inequalities. An expert explains what that means.
Prostate cancer outcomes have differed between black men and other ethnic groups for decades. Could improving the way doctors talk and share information with black patients make a difference?
More people than ever are living with HIV, but people may overlook the fact that many of these long-term survivors are African-American women. They face unique social and health challenges.
African-American women aging with HIV often have histories of abuse and trauma, in addition to other medical conditions. Here, a few share their stories.
If a person in the US has lots of money, he or she has access to some of the best health care in the world. The story is very different for poor people and minorities.
As death tolls rise from hate crimes, a psychiatrist wonders: Is it time to treat bigotry like a disease?
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Professor of Anthropology, American University
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine (Division of Dermatology), The University of Texas at Austin
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Iowa
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Master's Student in Epidemiology, University of Iowa
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Family Medicine Physician and Postdoctoral Health Services Researcher, University of Michigan
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Professor of Nursing, University of Virginia
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
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Lecturer, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, University of South Carolina
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Adjunct assistant professor, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Assistant Project Scientist, UCLA School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College
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Professor and Co-Director of the Racial Justice Institute, Georgetown University
