Press Releases

On February 1, 2012, the Black Women’s Health Imperative and Smiley Books released, Health First! The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide. Media coverage on the book, the authors and the book tour can be viewed and listed to, here.

 

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HEALTH FIRST! The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide (SmileyBooks, February 2012, ISBN: 978-1401936952, $27.95, Paperback),provides today’s Black woman with a comprehensive guide to her #1 resource: herself. It empowers her with the information she needs to express her full physical, emotional, and spiritual potential.

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As national, state and local organizations work diligently to provide the needed HIV education, testing, treatment, support and prevention services, the Black Women’s Health Imperative will continue to fight to ensure Black women are a priority population within these efforts, calling for more gender- and culturally specific programs and services for Black women.
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A few months ago, the Black Women’s Health Imperative celebrated the Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement that all new health plans will be required to cover contraception without co-pays. This marked a major step towards ensuring that all women have access to vital preventive services that promote better health outcomes. more»

Choose #11148 to designate the Black Women’s Health Imperative for your Workplace Contribution By designating the Black Women’s Health Imperative for your Combined Federal Campaign or America’s Charities workplace contribution, you’re helping to advance practices and policies that eliminate differences in the health outcomes of Black women as compared to more»

“HERvotes” to Mobilize Women Voters Expands Coalition Launches Blog Carnival on Women, the Economy, and Jobs HERvotes, launched on August 25th in recognition of the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, with 21 women’s organizations, has expanded to 31 organizations, adding to its numbers the YWCA USA, the General Federation of more»

GROUPS LIST TOP 10 LAWS FOR WOMEN CURRENTLY ENDANGERED BY EXTREMIST POLICIES In recognition of the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, and the anniversary of the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, a coalition of women’s organizations, representing millions of women, announced plans to counter the more»

“25 Years of AIDS/HIV Leadership & counting” Congratulations to Valerie Rochester, Imperative’s director of program development and training . Valerie was recently recognized by the Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health for her 25 years of service as a women’s health and HIV/AIDS advocate. She has served on more»