Concerns about pet illness with COVID-19, and spread between owners and their animals emerged on Feb. 28, when Hong Kong health authorities announced that a dog belonging to a woman sick with COVID-19, also tested “weak positive” for the new coronavirus, the virus that causes the disease.
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and African American women bear the disproportionate share of those deaths. Angela Doyinsola Aina, co-director and research lead for the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, is changing that.
For 22 years, Liliana Campos lived in the shadows with no resources to help her cope with the strain of existing in legal limbo as an undocumented immigrant. Today, Campos helps train immigration attorneys, social workers, and mental health professionals who work with immigrants and refugees.
Since 1985, God’s Love We Deliver has provided medically tailored meals and nutritional counseling to people in the New York metropolitan area living with severe and chronic illnesses, such as AIDS, cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions.
Robert Bullard, PhD, has earned the title “father of environmental justice” for his more than 40 years of studying, writing about, and pushing for policy changes to reduce the burden of pollution on poor and minority communities.
While politicians argue over whether guns or mental health issues are to blame, Gary Slutkin, MD, has another idea. What if violence is a disease we can prevent?
Since 1997, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated more than $50 billion in grants to improve global health and reduce inequities.
