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Addressing Mississippi's Maternal Health-Care Shortage

Addressing Mississippi's Maternal Health-Care Shortage

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State regulations and payment systems have prevented the growth of freestanding birth centers

Powerful Legacies: New Memoir Explores Racism in Health Care and Beyond

Powerful Legacies: New Memoir Explores Racism in Health Care and Beyond

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Dr. Uché Blackstock examines the systems that oppress Black Americans and urges her readers to challenge them

Two Hundred Thousand and (Not) Counting

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The U.S. failure to collect social and community data hampers efforts to control COVID-19 and to address health inequity

They are informally honored—but are they officially counted? Activists stand at sunrise to memorialize victims of the coronavirus, near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on August 27, 2020. The photo shows the monument in the thin morning lite with a silhouette line of people standing in the foreground. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Contact Tracing Requires Building Trust

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As states gear up their contact tracing efforts, here's how they should approach getting buy-in within their communities

A militarized approach to contact tracing is shown here as National Guard members at the Washington State Department of Health support contact tracing efforts in Tumwater, Washington—on May 20, 2020. The photo shows the guard members standing around a cubicle space talking. A table in the foreground is decorated with a drawing of a dinosaur and emblazoned with the words "I eat COVID-19 for breakfast. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

COVID-19 This Week: On the Brink

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The United States is a global outlier—a long way from vaccines or containment, even as we consider reopening schools

Chairs are pictured on top of tables in a classroom at Watlington Primary School during the last day of school, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Watlington, Britain, on July 17, 2020. The photo shows a number of tables with chairs stacked upon them. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Coronavirus Epidemiology This Week

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We won't stop COVID-19 until we focus on the data that matter

The image shows a heat map of the United States with states colored according to the higher number of tests coming back positive

One Weak Link and the Whole Thing Falls Apart

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A more structured, uniform, and comprehensive U.S. approach is needed to collect, report, and analyze coronavirus data

Data reporting exists but is "woefully inadequate and regrettably incomplete," like these mostly empty COVID-19 testing kits at the CDC serology testing site in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Systemic Racism in Mammogram Guidelines

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Breaking down U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations in the COVID-19 pandemic

Wigs and head scarves for patients with breast cancer are seen on mannequins at a center run by the "Reto" Group for Full Recovery of Breast Cancer in Mexico City October 18, 2012. The photo shows a room with mannequin heads and wigs. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

The Voices of the Navajos

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After COVID-19, who will hear the Navajo Nation and address education, water infrastructure, and food insecurity issues?

Hundreds of petroglyphs cover Newspaper Rock, in Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, next to the Naajo Nation, on October 29, 2017. The photo shows a dark rock face covered with hundreds of carved depictions of humans and animals. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen

White Supremacy in Global Health

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A Juneteenth pledge to continue the ever-changing march toward anti-racism, ending oppression, and achieving justice

General view of George Floyd's memorial site on June 4, 2020 following more than a week of nationwide protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The photo shows a mural to Floyd with lots of flowers and signs laid out in front. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi

We Need a Pro-Poor and Pro-Black Response to COVID-19

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Concentrate testing in poor Black and Latinx neighborhoods now and plan for an equitable distribution of future vaccines

A woman wears a mask during a Black Lives Matter protest in Centenary Square in Birmingham, England following the death of George Floyd who died in police custody in Minneapolis, on June 4, 2020. The picture shows a woman in a striking mask adorned with the words Floyd Life "Mattered." REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff

The Color and Gender of COVID: Essential Workers, Not Disposable People

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Women of color sit at the intersection of race and gender disparities—they should be at the center of policy solutions

A woman looks into the camera during a demonstration to protest the shooting of Michael Brown and the resulting police response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri August 15, 2014. The photo shows a woman with a red bandana tied around her face. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson