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religious response to suicide increasingly one of prevention,

In Tampa Bay, the Catholic church is holding a series of suicide prevention workshops. This year, the National Baptist Convention, the nation’s oldest African-American religious organization, offered a class about suicide and depression in Baltimore. ..

racism v public health

Infant Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that African American, Native American Hawaiian, and Hispanic mortality is all greater than white American, with African Americans suffering more than double that rate.. ..

briefing by spokesperson for secretary-general

Secretary-General is traveling out of New York as we speak, and he is on the way to Nairobi, Kenya, where he is scheduled to speak at the session of African Regional High-level Conference on Counter Terrorism and Prevention of Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism. ..

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hiv hits black women hardest, cdc report says

Black women continue to be diagnosed with HIV at disproportionately high rates relative to white and Hispanic Latina women, released Thursday by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.. We know that African American women are affected by HIV in United States, and the interventions that..

pork producers talk trade and animal disease

National Pork Producers Council officials held press conference Thursday, the day after announcing World Pork Expo is cancelled this year due to concerns about African swine fever.. ... Prevention is our best defense against disease like African swine fever for which no vaccine..

opinion

Instead of costing him votes, Tesler continued, the . large effects of racial attitudes in Obama’s election, therefore, did not so much hurt him electorally as they polarized voter preferences based on their feelings about African-Americans. . . ..

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