This article originally appeared on Black Health Matters. When you reach your 60s, all the issues that arose in your 50s become more extreme. Your yearly well-woman visit is a good time to check in with your doctor about how you’re doing, how you’d like to be doing...
SAGE recently announced a public education campaign that uses striking images of fierce and fabulous LGBT older people to illustrate both the vitality and unique needs of this population. Dubbed “(in)visible?” the campaign launched with billboard ads in Times Square,...
by Grace Birnstengel. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. HIV/AIDS used to be considered a disease of the young. In the early 1980s, when doctors first reported cases of HIV, nearly 70% of diagnoses were among people under 40. Fast forward four decades...
by Cha Vang, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Hmong Innovating Politics and a member of SEARAC’s Advisory Council for Moving Mountains 2019. This post originally appeared on the SEARAC blog. The Southeast Asian American (SEAA) community has always had an abundance...
by Julia Kassem. This article originally appeared on Global Research News. In 2017, the City of Detroit alone faced 171 cases of hepatitis A. This was more than all the rest of Wayne County with 142 cases, and topped any other county in Michigan. In total, over 500...
After the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, many Vietnamese people fled their war-torn country for the United States in search for a better life. Thousands of Vietnamese adults, children, and families crammed onto boats and traveled to the United...