For pretty much all my life I wondered why I had so many different doctors. I’m not sure how many doctors I had, but I remember when I was younger I went to San Francisco for doctor visits twice a year. When I was 13 years old, it was at one of these visits that I found out I have HIV. They told me that when I was born, my mother, who also has the virus, passed it on to me.
Category: Community Health
During last week’s midnight premiere of “Dark Knight Rises,” James Holmes walked into a Colorado movie theatre armed with a semi-automatic rifle, a shotgun, and two handguns.
On Wednesday, May 23, community members gathered at Madera’s City Hall and shared why they think parks are important.
Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about what our neighborhoods need to be more healthy. We’ve discussed four major areas that experts have recommended for healthy communities, which include health homes for children, increased school attendance, reducing youth violence, and reversing the childhood obesity epidemic.
New America Media held a briefing to update journalists in the Central Valley on who can benefit from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The briefing covered barriers keeping kids and Central Valley residents from receiving coverage from ACA, and how to overcome those obstacles.