You can check your eligibility and schedule an appointment (they’re required at the moment) to receive the vaccine with New York’s “Am I Eligible” app.
Experts: Coping with mental illness may be harder during pandemic holidays
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and the holidays arrive, many Haitian-Americans who suffer from mental illnesses said they do not anticipate this period to be any more stressful than the previous years. However, two mental health experts said, many people might fail to realize how experiencing a pandemic and the holiday season at the same time can exacerbate their mental health issues since they have never experienced both together before.
Help Save Haitian Women and Babies in NYC
While efforts to address maternal health disparities have focused on the Black community at large, disparities within Black subgroups like Haitians need to be addressed also. The need is all too evident in both the presence of and inattention to the health disparities impacting the Haitian community. The contributors to these unacceptable disparities are not a result of biology, but of racism. But for us Haitians, we know very well that racism extends beyond race.
Haiti: End Sexual Abuse in Football
FIFA Should Ban Officials Who Exploit Children Human Rights Watch (New York) – The International Federation of Association Football (Fédération Internationale de…
Health care workers cry out ‘Beds, not body bags’ about Brooklyn hospitals merger
Kingsbrook, along with Interfaith Medical Center and Brookdale, the other two hospitals looking at consolidation, employ a significant number of Haitian-Americans. The planned merger of services is part of a $700 million New York State plan to consolidate services at the facilities, which are managed by One Brooklyn Health, a nonprofit.
Adieu: Jules Taylor, Jr., civic leader whose legacy continues with good works
Taylor, of Rosedale, died on May 3 after a battle with Covid-19 that mobilized he and his wife Emmylnn’s supporters with a fervor similar to that with which the couple has served their community over the years.
When Home Is Not Always Safe: The Impact of COVID-19 On Children And Youth
By Shirley Plantin Millions of our children and youth have been home for nearly six months in the attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19….
Collaborating on kidneys: Haiti’s transplantation ambitions
This article was first published in The Lancet. Haiti lacks health programmes and facilities for kidney disease. Jane Regan reports…
COVID-19 in the Americas: ‘The past six months have shaken our world.
By Jacqueline Charles, Jimena Tavel, Nora Gámez Torres, Syra Ortiz-Blanes, and Jacob Kinkaid Six months after the World Health Organization was alerted about…
Latin America, Caribbean must continue to test, treat, trace and isolate COVID-19 patients
By Jacqueline Charles, Jimena Tavel, and Nora Gámez Torres As of June 8, there were more than 3.3 million cases…