Milwaukee Enrollment Network launches community education campaign to promote awareness of return to Medicaid re-enrollment requirements

Ghana coronavirus: 20,085 cases; high school infected, prez in isolation | Africanews

Ghana is West Africa’s most impacted nation behind Nigeria, at a point in May 2020, Ghana led the regional case load. June has started with progressive lifting of more virus

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As COVID cases rise, White House seeks to scrap ‘Obamacare’

The administration’s high court filing at 10:30 p.m. Thursday came the same day the government reported that close to half a million people who lost their health insurance amid the economic shutdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 have gotten coverage through

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Ghana coronavirus: 27,060 cases; recoveries pass 23,000 | Africanews

Ghana is West Africa’s most impacted nation behind Nigeria, at a point in May 2020, Ghana led the regional case load. June has started with progressive lifting of more virus

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Knights of Pythias

The Knights of Pythias was a fraternal and benevolent order in Boston's small and growing Black community in lower Roxbury that provided effective health insurance and death benefits to widows and orphans. Anchored in its own building at the corner of Ruggles and Washington Streets, it helped

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

HeroZona Foundation Establishes Nation’s Largest COVID-19 Testing Site | Afro

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Like most of Arizona, Phoenix has suffered a tremendous spike in COVID-19 cases, and coronavirus testing has been limited. In response to the rapidly expanding numbers of the virus in Arizona and the need for additional

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$3 Trillion HEROES Act promises more COVID-19 relief for consumers and businesses

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What should the West learn from China?

Fortunately, while the COVID-19 is spreading around the world, China has achieved progress in controlling the epidemic, and has gradually resumed the economic and social operations, enabling it to free up its hands to accelerate the production of epidemic prevention materials to aid those countries

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The attack on flavored tobacco products

An earlier national law —The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 — gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration full authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco

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NYC Health + Hospitals announces success of telehealth expansion to address COVID-19 | New York Carib News

“Our priority during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic was to ensure that the City’s public healthcare system continued to provide New Yorkers the care they needed where it was safest – at home,” said NYC Health + Hospitals Senior Vice President for Ambulatory Care Ted Long, MD. “We were

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Senate panel pushes increase in Georgia's low tobacco tax | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia’s tobacco tax could more than triple under a late-in-the-game move in the state

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BODO: Why medical insurers should tighten checks on hospitals

Why medical insurers should tighten checks on hospitals

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Coronavirus Shines Spotlight on Healthcare Disparities

For some time now in Texas, we have been well aware of significant health disparities between Caucasians in contrast to African Americans and

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UWI students get increased access to healthcare

Students of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, will be able to access medical care islandwide at private and public institutions come September 2020, following the passing of an extended health-card policy led by the students’ guild....

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Uneconomic subscriptions bleed PSMAS

THE Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) said it faced imminent collapse as it could no longer sustain its operations with the measly monthly subscriptions paid by members, the majority of them civil servants. BY VENERANDA LANGA PSMAS chief executive officer Farai Muchena and managing

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Sally Pipes: Do coronavirus numbers show bias in health care? This study's results will surprise you

-19 has had on black Americans? Its those without. Unfortunately, African Americans suffer from these conditions has wrought, particularly on African-Americans. McLarens has wrought, particularly on African-Americans. The link between public

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Organization to Hold Trump and Congress Accountable for Black Americans Who Died From COVID-19

Triangle ADOS Shares White House Petition and Submitted a Proposal for Concerned Black American Citizens

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Trump Is Betting His Reelection on Single-Issue Statue Voters - African American News Today - EIN News

since 1969. Among African-Americans and Latinos, joblessness gestural appeals to African-Americans have been similarly ill that has afflicted African-Americans with grotesque disproportionality inroads with the African-American community have turned

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Africa: What Becomes of Africa As the Foreign Aid Taps Run Dry?

DfID has, in the years of its existence, been key to offering development assistance to countries with high numbers of people living in poverty in the areas of primary education; access to reproductive health care; and the tackling of infant, child, and maternal deaths, and this role substantially

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No health minister in Brazil as coronavirus infection spreads

The National Congress had not said anything about the Teich resignation, but the former minister of education during the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva government and left-wing candidate for president of Brazil in 2018, Fernando Haddad, published a tweet saying: “Who will be the next Health

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The Uncomfortable Parts Of Creating A Prenup

We can usually get on board with the idea of car insurance, health insurance, life insurance, phone insurance, home insurance, travel insurance – really just about every type of insurance except a prenup. And that’s what a prenuptial agreement is: insurance.

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Too Many Black Americans Are Dying from COVID-19 - African American News Today - EIN News

… and law-enforcement killings of black Americans—the latter leading to mass … to protect the health of black Americans. Deep health inequities have always …

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Ghana COVID-19: 16,431 cases, prez warns party on virus protocol breach

Total confirmed cases = 16,431

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Column: Former Georgia player shows power of persistence | The Atlanta Voice

Meet Shedrick Wynn, who arrived at Georgia in 1999 to play football but never finished his college

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Ghana coronavirus: 22,8223 cases; 90% Education Ministry staff infected | Africanews

Ghana is West Africa’s most impacted nation behind Nigeria, at a point in May 2020, Ghana led the regional case load. June has started with progressive lifting of more virus

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‘Every System Should Be On The Table’: Evidence Of Structural Racism Drives Committee’s Push For A Bold Recovery

Committee for Greater LA prepares COVID-19 recovery agenda to advance racial justice with USC/UCLA data to demonstrate effects of racism in...

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Newly Unemployed? Understanding Your Health Insurance Options

With millions of people nationwide filing for unemployment since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals and families across the country are suddenly finding themselves without health insurance at a precarious

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We Don’t Fully Understand How Deadly the Coronavirus Has Been For Black Americans

While black people make up only about 13% of the United States’ population according to the U.S. Census Bureau, they account for 22% of COVID-19 deaths so far, according to the COVID Tracking Project (white people, who make up 77% of the U.S. population, account for only 47% of

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The Impact of the HEROES Act on Black Communities | Afro

Black Businesses & Access to Capital: Data also suggest Black businesses were less likely to receive forgivable loans in the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), and the HEROES Act attempts to address some of these issues by directing additional resources to community

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No health minister in Brazil as coronavirus infection spreads | Afro

The National Congress had not said anything about the Teich resignation, but the former minister of education during the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva government and left-wing candidate for president of Brazil in 2018, Fernando Haddad, published a tweet saying: “Who will be the next Health

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Coronavirus Pandemic And George Floyd Protests Highlight Health Disparities For Black People – Free Press of Jacksonville

Black people constitute nearly 13% of the U.S. population but made up 23% of all Covid-19 deaths as of June 3, according to the Centers for Disease Control and

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