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The knowledge of the 40-year Tuskegee Experiment, which recruited African American men with syphilis to be a part of a research project in which they were promised but never given treatment, is widely known in the African American community. This memory, in addition to the widespread discrimination most have faced in their lifetimes, are likely to provide reasons for African elders to be more than a little suspicious of health care providers, especially those who suggest any type of experimental treatment or research. Clavon (1986) and others have emphasized the importance of recognizing and respecting patients’ cultural habits, listening attentively, and encouraging conversation.
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Despite these improvements... serious problems continued to plague the African American community. The most important of these was housing. As the suburbanization of the city's white population accelerated, the black community expanded to the east and northeast of the Central-Woodland area, particularly into HOUGH and GLENVILLE. Expansion, however, did not lead to more integrated neighborhoods or provide better housing for blacks. "Blockbusting" techniques by realtors led to panic selling by whites in Hough in the 1950s; once a neighborhood became all black, landlords would subdivide structures into small apartments and raise rents exorbitantly. The result, by 1960, was a crowded ghetto of deteriorating housing stock.
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"The National Minority Health Month Foundation views the disproportionate burden of heart failure suffered by the African American community as a serious societal concern," said Gary A. Puckrein, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Foundation. "The Foundation is committed to collecting, analyzing and disseminating reliable health data that can document the need for improved health services at the community level. The research that is being undertaken to more specifically identify the causes and efficacious treatments of heart failure shows great promise for the future."
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Various adoptions agencies across the country exist to promote African America adoptions within the African American community. “A Child’s Hope,” of North Carolina works to match qualified adoptive parents with young African American women facing unplanned pregnancies, citing the $10,000 Federal Adoption tax credit as a means to making the process affordable. With this kind of federal assistance, hopefully matched with employer assistance, adoption seems like a more and more viable option all the time.
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The numbers most starkly illustrate HIV’s impact on the African American community. More than 80 percent of the 3,269 HIV cases identified between 2001 and 2006 were among black men, women and adolescents. Among women who tested positive, a rising percentage of local cases, nine of 10 were African American.
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AARP is working in Illinois with employers, business and community leaders to increase financial security within the African American community. Some of the efforts focus on implementing measures, such as the auto-enrollment of employees in 401k plans, to better prepare employees for retirement.
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