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Give Them the Full Treatment

Funding can be used for partnerships with community-based organizations to increase vaccine uptake, including for underserved groups.

Minority kids are less likely to get X-rays, MRIs and CT scans during emergency hospital visits.

Five ways nations can create a fairer and healthier world post–COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization

Health equity advocate Karen Winkfield, MD, MPH, works to enroll more underserved people with cancer in lifesaving clinical trials.

Christina Henderson joins the USA Fibroid Centers to support increased education about fibroids among minority women.

Uplifting social justice and HIV

The Oscar-winning actor stars in a new Stand Up To Cancer campaign aimed at educating Black and Latino people about colorectal cancer.

Health and socioeconomic factors affect their dementia risk.

At the current pace, only about 20% of the world’s population will be vaccinated by the end of 2021.

The Colon Cancer Foundation seeks new ways to keep people free from colorectal cancer. An interview with the new president, Cindy Borassi.

A new study calls for Black patients in need of kidney transplants to be put on waitlists at a higher level of kidney function.

Leading advocacy groups suggest policy and practice changes to improve racial equality in access to high quality cancer care.

Certain racial/ethnic groups and older people aren’t being adequately represented and trial reporting guidelines aren’t being followed.

Among Native Americans, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout so far has been a success story.

The fund will help to develop initiatives to support researchers of color and increase diversity in cancer research and patient care.

Public health authorities are relying on community health workers to be a bridge to communities that have been hardest hit by COVID-19.