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CityViews: The Fight Against Maternal Mortality Starts With Listening

Every year in New York City, more than 3,000 women experience a life-threatening event during childbirth, and about 30 women die from a pregnancy-related cause.

Health Opinion

CityViews: Dear NYC, Here are 10 Ideas for a Fairer, Healthier Future

‘New York City, known as one of the cultural epicenters of the world, modernizes with the times, but often at the cost of smaller, community-based initiatives.’

Health Uncategorized

The Alliance for Positive Change Launches Campaign to Encourage New Yorkers to Know Their HIV Status

Every New Yorker can do something to protect themselves and others: take an HIV test.

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Report on Death Disparities in NYC Wins Journalism Honor

The 2017 investigation looked into the causes of wide disparities in life expectancy and death rates among New York City neighborhoods

Health Opinion

CityViews: Act Now to Prevent Heat Deaths and Build a Greener Gowanus

‘The proposed rezoning of Gowanus presents an unprecedented opportunity to tackle the urban heat island effect, saving lives while creating a more equitable and sustainable community.’

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World AIDS Day at the Alliance for Positive Change – “Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections”

For this World AIDS Day, the Alliance for Positive Change, an organization that for 27 years has transformed the lives of New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses,…

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Fending Off ‘Magic Bullets’ as Low-Income New York Aims to Get Healthier

Hoping to counter fanciful marketing, debunk nutrition myths and encourage the consumption of healthy foods, nonprofits have teamed up with vendors to channel the desire for better health in New…

Education Health In Depth Investigations

City Youth Football Teams Unfazed By Study’s New Concussion Alarm

A study finding that tackle football before age 12 creates life-long health risk doesn’t appear to be generating much soul-searching by private youth teams. And the public school system, whose…

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Hearing the Call to Help, Closing the Gap on Health

A Bronx church is both a place of worship and a community center that draws people of different religions and cultures in by providing resources that are inaccessible to them…

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Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge

Every year about 1,200 New York City youth age out of foster care. Among many challenges they face is developing good eating habits and finding and affording the nutritious food…

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