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Awareness Calendar

Awareness Calendar

Health awareness months and days that matter for Black communities. Each page is updated annually with the current year's evidence base, advocacy moments, and where to take action.

February

Black History Month: Health

Black History Month health resources: structural history, Black clinicians and researchers, present-day disparities.

February

American Heart Month

American Heart Month February: Black cardiovascular disparities, hypertension management, John Henryism, allostatic load.

March

Endometriosis Awareness Month

Endometriosis Awareness Month March: Black-women diagnostic delay, racial pain-assessment bias, specialist telehealth pathways.

April

Black Maternal Health Week

Black Maternal Health Week April 11-17: the maternal-mortality crisis, evidence-based interventions, doula Medicaid coverage tracker.

May

Mental Health Awareness Month

Mental Health Awareness Month: Black mental-health access gap, suicide-prevention resources, online therapy with Black-clinician availability.

June

Men's Health Month

Men's Health Month: Black men's specific health gaps, prostate-cancer screening guidelines, mental-health crisis data, where to find a Black primary-care doctor.

July

Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

BIPOC Mental Health Month July: the racial mental-health access gap, Bebe Moore Campbell's legacy, culturally-adapted therapy evidence base.

September

Sickle Cell Awareness Month

Sickle Cell Awareness Month September: SCD vs SCT, gene-therapy approvals, the NIH funding gap, advocacy and patient resources.

October

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer Awareness Month October: Black women's 40% higher mortality, triple-negative subtype prevalence, screening guidelines, oncology access.

October

World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day October 10: WHO theme, Black communities and workplace mental health, where to access online therapy.

November

Diabetes Awareness Month

Diabetes Awareness Month November: Black-adult prevalence, GLP-1 access, CGM uptake gap, complication prevention.

December

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day December 1: Black communities and HIV, PrEP access gap, online PrEP services, anti-stigma resources.