Black LGBTQ+ Health
Black LGBTQ+ people face the sharpest within-Black health disparities in the United States. Black men who have sex with men carry a lifetime-HIV-diagnosis risk of …
Black Men's Health
Black men develop heart failure at a median age of 39, two decades before white peers, per the CARDIA cohort published in NEJM 2009 (PMID …
Black Women's Health
Black women in the United States face the widest maternal mortality gap in the high-income world. In 2023, the Black non-Hispanic maternal mortality rate was …
Kids and Teens
Approximately 1 in 365 Black or African American babies is born with sickle cell disease, and about 1 in 13 is born with sickle cell …
Seniors
Black seniors are Medicare-enrolled at similar rates to white seniors but receive less hospice, more intensive end-of-life procedures, and fewer completed advance directives. The REGARDS …