A Supreme Court case set for arguments next week could gut a key part of the Affordable Care Act that provides free preventive health services—putting millions at risk and threatening progress in reducing racial health disparities, especially for Black women. Public health experts warn the case, driven by ideological objections, could lead to higher disease rates, later diagnoses, and increased death rates in communities of color.
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HIV infections could jump over six times if U.S. support is dropped and not replaced, UNAIDS chief says
UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima warned that if the U.S. stops supporting efforts to combat HIV worldwide, there could be 8.7 million new HIV infections, 6.3 million AIDS-related deaths, and 3.4 million children made orphans by 2029.
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PRESS ROOM: Baltimore among the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 2023 Culture of Health Prize winners
Baltimore is among nine jurisdictions across the nation to be chosen by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to receive its 2023 Culture of Health Prize. The Prize celebrates communities across the country where residents and organizations are collaborating to build solutions to barriers that have created unequal opportunities for health and wellbeing. With the […]
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JPMorgan Chase and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invest $900,000 in Howard University School of Law
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com JPMorgan Chase and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) invested $900,000 in philanthropic capital on Oct. 3 to the Howard University (HU) School of Law to mitigate and resolve heirs property, or tangled title, cases. The investment will be used to establish the first-of-its-kind Estate Planning and Heirs […]