A new study confirms that Black women are at higher risk of death due to cervical cancer than their white counterparts due to late diagnoses and lack of preventative care.
that prevent Black women from accessing, seeking, and receiving the care they need and deserve in this country.released by the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice and Human Rights Watch , with both organizations teaming up with nine community-based researchers in Georgia to document factors contributing to disproportionate cervical cancer death rates for Black women.
Georgia’s healthcare system is failing Black women on this front at every angle, with the study finding that Black Georgian women are more likely than white women to not undergo potentially life-saving cancer screenings, receiving diagnoses at a later stage, and therefore lowering their five-year survival rates.
The researchers summed it up best in the report, writing, “These preventable deaths also represent a failure of the federal, state, and local governments to protect and promote human rights for all people and to ensure adequate and affordable access to the lifesaving reproductive healthcare services and information all people need and have a right to.” Check out the
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