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Decoding African DNA Could Help Fight Disease
How decoding African DNA could help fight disease By Dickens OleweBBC News 12 November 2019 Pharmaceutical giants often manufacture drugs
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Black women are more likely than white women to experience a pregnancy loss according to study
Am J Epidemiol. 2013 Jun 1; 177(11): 1271–1278. Published online 2013 Apr 4. doi: 10.1093/aje/kws393 PMCID: PMC3664339 PMID: 23558353 Risk of Miscarriage Among Black
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Wangari Maathai: First black African woman to win a Nobel Prize
Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (/wænˈɡɑːri mɑːˈtaɪ/; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift she studied in the United States, earning a Bachelor’s Degree from Mount St. Scholastica and a Master’s Degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi in Kenya.
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United Nations admits it played role in Haiti cholera epidemic
Our Foreign Staff 18 AUGUST 2016 • 5:14PM Victims’ advocates hailed as vindication on Thursday the United Nations’ acknowledgment it
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Robert Rayford: First documented case of AIDS in America
Case Shakes Theories Of Aids Origin October 25, 1987|By John Crewdson, (copyright) 1987 Chicago Tribune. ST. LOUIS — Long before
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The Ugly Racial Undertones In Our Panicked Response To Ebola: Fear of a Black Planet
The Ugly Racial Undertones In Our Panicked Response To Ebola BY TARA CULP-RESSLER POSTED ON OCTOBER 16, 2014 AT 4:18 PM On
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Why do African-American women breastfeed less?
9 June 2014 Last updated at 19:13 ET By Magazine Monitor A collection of cultural artefacts According to the US
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D.C. hospital reports high rate of black women seeking treatment for advanced breast cancer
By Lena H. Sun, Published: May 9 2014 Cancer specialists at MedStar Washington Hospital Center are trying to find out
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Fighting a silent epidemic: Viral Hepatitis in the African American Community
April 24, 2014 • By J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health (Acting), Office of Minority Health, U.S.
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