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When colon and rectum cancer among African Americans is detected at a localized stage, the survival rate is 84%; ... only 33% of cancers are detected at a localized stage. (2)
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Some African-American families may request that certain diagnoses or disease prognoses be withheld from the patient to shelter them from disturbing information. Other patients and families favor forthright discussion of all medical issues and treatment plans. Some patients may prefer that their loved ones be the conduits for information. So direct provider-patient communication may be limited by patients’ desire not to know the full implications of their illness.
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The survey ... revealed that a majority of African Americans (58%) favor needle exchange -- programs that offer clean needles to IV drug users in exchange for used ones. Needle exchange remains a hotly debated issue, though it is well understood to significantly reduce the spread of HIV infection among injection drug users at high risk for HIV transmission.
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Very few of the names recorded in this 1855 census of merchants are identified as African Americans. Note here, at #264, that George, a slave, appears to have been operating an "eating house for Negroes" in partnership with a Mr. Kirchoff [the St. Mary Street noted in the record is now Church Street].
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) continued to spread death in African countries in the 1990s. In Kenya in August of 1999, President Daniel Arap Moi announced that AIDS was killing approximately 420 Kenyans each day.
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Besides her mother, Ruby Dandridge, Dorothy had watched three other African-American leading actresses become "near the top" stars. She watched the stardom of Nina Mae McKinney (b.1912-d.1967) from the movies Hallelujah (1929) and Pinky (1949), Fredi Washington (b.1903-d.1994) from Imitation of Life (1934) and The Emperor Jones (1933), and the incomparable Lena Horne (b.1917) from Cabin in the Sky (1943) and Stormy Weather (1943). Dorothy Dandridge has always wanted to be the consummate Hollywood actress. After being validated by beating out Lena Horne for the leading roles in both Bright Road in 1951 and Carmen Jones in 1954, Dorothy felt that this was the road to the top. She was ... nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress of 1954, making her the first African-American ever nominated.
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