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The following summarizes efforts and a grant that seek reduce racial health care disparities.
Albany, N.Y.: The Albany Times Union on Aug. 23 profiled the Rev. Oscar McLaughlin, a local pastor and a chaplain at Hudson Correctional Facility and a local arranger for the national HIV/AIDS advocacy group The Balm in Gilead. McLaughlin, motivated by the high HIV/AIDS rates in the black community, organized a committee at his church that seeks to educate its members on HIV/AIDS and held its first wellness fair this summer, where 14 mass were tried (Albany Times Union, 8/23).
North Carolina: The North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund over the adjacent three long time will prize $7.5 million in grants to agencies and initiatives that seek to reduce health disparities between black and white residents, the Winston-Salem Chronicle reports. The trust fund last week began to live with applications from eligible organizations that have documented have and success in developing and implementing services to reduce health disparities. Funds also are available for programs that aim to increase cultural competency among local health care providers and ameliorate quality of services provided to minorities. Proposals and other application materials ar available on the group's Web website and all applications must be received by Oct. 1 (Winston-Salem Chronicle, 8/27).
Pittsburgh: Five women in the U.S. each have received a $5,000 Cheerios Sisters Saving Hearts grant from the Congressional Black Caucus and Cheerios for raising heart disease knowingness among blacks, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8/28). The initiative recognizes individuals for their sentience efforts in the pitch-black community. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the U.S., and black women ar disproportionately affected by the disease (Cheerios Sisters Saving Hearts Web site).
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