A reporter drives 5,500 miles across Mississippi and gains a fresh appreciation for journalism that's accountable to the people whose lives it documents.
Health Equity & Social Justice
For residents in heavily surveilled neighborhoods, the cameras come with a cost that goes beyond privacy.
“There’s a complete mismatch between where we see PrEP clinics, and where we see HIV,” said Natalie Crawford, a researcher at Emory who is leading an initiative to support and train pharmacies in HIV prevention, education and referrals.
High costs and proposed federal rollbacks could deepen health inequities by reducing access to high-quality early childhood care.
San Francisco's budget cuts threaten HIV prevention services serving the city's Latine immigrant community.San Francisco's budget cuts threaten HIV prevention services serving the city's Latino immigrant community.
“This is a lot of people not just milking the system but making deliberate economic decisions to exploit a vulnerable population,” said Barak Richman, a professor at George Washington University Law School.
In Bakersfield, where Black mothers face some of California's worst maternal health outcomes, doulas are stepping in to fill a gap the medical system has long ignored.
Racism is a serious public health issue in the United States, and the use of racial slurs raises bigger questions about language and its effects on the health of Black and Hispanic people.