Why addressing racism against Black women in health care is key to ending the US HIV epidemic
- Written by Nabila El-Bassel, Professor of Social Work, Director of Social Intervention Group, Columbia University
When Black patients are treated by Black doctors, they have better health outcomes – but fewer than 6 in 100 American doctors are Black.The Good Brigade/Digital Vision via Getty ImagesForty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women.
Although Black women represent only 13% of the...