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Health Topics & Guides

Our Learn hub organizes health information across four pillars: Black women's health, Black men's health, kids and teens, and seniors. Every Learn guide is reviewed quarterly and carries an "Updated: YYYY-MM-DD" tag beneath the byline the day we revise it. Browse the pillars below, or email our contact form if a guide reads as out of date. Our full editorial process is documented at /about/editorial-standards/.

Black LGBTQ+ Health

This pillar gathers guidance for Black LGBTQ+ readers: HIV testing and prevention, including PrEP, gender-affirming care, mental health, and finding clinicians who treat you with …

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Black Men's Health

In the CARDIA study, which followed 5,115 young adults for 20 years, 27 developed heart failure at an average age of 39, nearly all of …

Reviewed: 1 guide

Black Women's Health

In 2023, the maternal mortality rate for Black women in the United States was 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, per the CDC National Center …

Reviewed: 1 guide

Kids and Teens

Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States, and more than 90% of them are Black or African American, per CDC. Newborn …

Reviewed: 1 guide

Seniors

In the REGARDS study of older adults on Medicare who died of natural causes from 2013 to 2015, about one in three Black decedents (34.9%) …

Reviewed: 1 guide