Achieving Health Equity for Women Means We Must #BreakTheBias
Vivent Health
All causes have advocates, but in the fight against HIV, nothing less than a champion will do.
During Women’s History Month, we are asking ourselves what it takes to?#BreakTheBias?and close the gender gap in the U.S. for women’s health outcomes.?Addressing gender inequities is essential to all we at Vivent Health strive to achieve every day.
To realize the promise of a world without AIDS, we must reach women and girls at risk of HIV; approximately 23% of people living with HIV are women?and the highest number of new diagnoses are among women ages 25 to 44. Black, Latina, and other women of color, particularly Black women, are disproportionately affected by HIV, accounting for the majority of these new HIV infections.
We must #BreakTheBias and confront the social determinants of health that adversely impact women’s individual health across this country. Economic insecurity, discrimination, lack of affordable childcare, intimate partner violence and other barriers to accessing primary, reproductive, sexual and maternal healthcare keep too many women in this country from meaningfully engaging with our health care systems. These barriers have only heightened during the COVID pandemic. To improve women’s health we must support gender equity.
Racism, quite simply, kills. Not only do Black women represent the majority of new HIV infections, but they are also less likely?than white women to?receive the antiretroviral therapies?that are highly effective at preventing HIV infection. It is unacceptable that Black women account for the highest rates of HIV-related deaths among women living with HIV in the U.S. It is no surprise that our healthcare system is imbued with systematic racism and the HIV epidemic is but one example of the uneven burden on Black, Latina and other women of color. We must #BreakTheBias.
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Vivent Health is proud to stand as an ally of our women champions, patients, clients and partners and to commit to #BreakTheBias in 2022 and beyond.
By: Vivent Health Chief People Officer Theresa Dear and Chief Development Officer Margaret Lidstone.
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