Albany-based Phoebe Putney Health System and Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine agreed Monday to enter a partnership aimed at improving health-care access in an area suffering from a shortage of medical providers.
Almost half of new HIV infections in the United States are reported in the South, and more than 66,000 Georgians are living with the virus that causes AIDS, many of whom do not have access to health care.
“Certificate of need” laws, largely supported by the hospital industry, limit health facility construction in 35 states and Washington, D.C. Georgia lawmakers decided its law was complicating the reviving of two hospitals critical to their communities.
The leaders of four historically Black medical schools are telling U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders that the federal government needs to bolster their funding. They spoke at a Friday hearing at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.
A coalition including the four medical schools at the nation's historically Black colleges and universities has announced a new initiative aimed at increasing the number of Black Americans registered as organ donors and combating disparities among transplant recipients.
People who are interested in taking part can find out more by emailing the Morehouse School of Medicine Vaccine Trials Unit (VTU) at vturesearch@msm.edu, or calling 888-788-0644.
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