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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

7 Moreover, medical professionals, health practitioners, and relevant academic institutions should proactively disseminate creditable news and information during such health outbreaks through mainstream social media channels. Shaanxi, Xi’an, China: Shaanxi Normal University; 2018. Doctorate [dissertation].

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Episode 120: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 1 – Racism, Police Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Pearls Defining Structural Racism Structural racism is a term that acknowledges that racism is perpetuated beyond individual interactions and interpersonal racism, but is present in the systems and policies that govern our everyday lives. N Engl J Med 2020; 383:197-199. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31130-9.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS.