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Black women's health issues | Black women's health issues

carmen-ambrosio's picture
Apr.18.2011
It is almost time to do one thing I’ve dreaded doing for many years. I have to have my annual smashogram a.k.a. mammogram. Ladies, yes, the process of flattening of two body parts that were never meant to do so between almost always cold vise plates is undeniably painful. I, for one, believe the...
ruth-houston's picture
Dec.01.2008
As an infidelity expert and a Black woman, I feel it's my duty to speak out on the issue of Black women and HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day because same sex infidelity -- better known in the Black community as the "down low" --  is one of the primary ways Black women are contracting  HIV. I...