Baby Eczema on Black Skin: Signs Parents Miss and What Works
On a Black baby, eczema is gray, purple, or a deeper brown, and it often shows up as tiny rough bumps on the outer arms, legs, and trunk instead of red patches in the creases. The scoring tools clinicians use were built around redness, so it gets graded milder and treated later than it should be…
ADAP Free HIV Medication: How Black Adults Qualify and Apply
The AIDS Drug Assistance Program pays for HIV medication, and in most states insurance premiums and copays too, for anyone with HIV under an income limit the state sets. It covered 309,910 people in 2023, 38% of them Black, and most people who qualify have never heard of it.
WISEWOMAN: Free Heart Screening for Uninsured Black Women 35-64
CDC's WISEWOMAN program pays for blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar screening, follow-up and coaching for uninsured and underinsured women aged 35 to 64 in 32 states, through the same state program that provides free mammograms. Who qualifies, how to get in, what to do if your state is not…
Health Care for the Homeless: How Black Adults Get Care Now
Federal law funds clinics that must treat you whether or not you can pay, and Medicaid cannot be denied because you have no fixed address. Black people are 32 percent of everyone experiencing homelessness in the United States, so this door matters most for us. Here is how to walk through it.
Hurricane Emergency Prescription Refills for Black Patients
Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Louisiana let you get medication early or without your doctor once a storm emergency is declared, Medicare drug plans are expected to lift refill limits in a declared disaster, and a federal program pays for a 30-day supply if you are uninsured. Diabetes and…
Pregnancy Medicaid: How to Apply and What Black Mothers Get
Pregnancy Medicaid has the highest income limit of any adult Medicaid group, can start the same day at a clinic, and can pay bills from three months before you applied. Medicaid paid for 64.5% of births to Black mothers in 2023, so this guide covers the federal rules, Indiana's and Alabama's own…
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