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How can we overcome the racial barriers to global health parity?
Aug 3, 2020
The pandemic has laid bare longstanding racial health inequalities. A host of factors lie behind these disparities. Targeted funding and communications can help us begin to address these issues.
From Louisville to London, the call for social justice has reached fever pitch worldwide as multicultural voices decry police brutality and the disparities that imperil Black lives. Amid the mainly peaceful protests, colonial monuments are falling and global consciousness is rising — even in Idlib, Syria, where a mural on a bombed building memorializes George Floyd.
Sadly, Floyd, who died in police custody on the streets of Minneapolis in May, is one of many. Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others met the same fate, capturing global headlines and our collective conscience. Then there are the lesser-known victims like Collins Khosa of Alexandra, South Africa, who was allegedly beaten to death by police and security officers for consuming a beer in his yard during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The American Heart Association denounces senseless acts of racial violence and destruction in communities of colour that are already contending with socioeconomic factors that compromise health and shorten lives. We are taking a stand for social justice — because it is the right thing to do, and because there is scientific evidence supporting the link between social injustice and health inequity.
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