Nova Scotia announced Thursday it is spending $3.2 million to build eight centres across the province to improve access to mental health and addiction support for youth and their families.
Posted: Aug 04, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: August 4
Eugene Anderson received the first dose of his COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Carolyne Aremo on Thursday, April 8, 2021, at an African Nova Scotian vaccine clinic in Upper Hammonds Plains, N.S.(Communications Nova Scotia)
Several months into the pandemic, when vaccines were on the horizon, Sharon Davis-Murdoch and other leaders in the Black community started raising their voices. Having vaccine clinics generically would not address the needs of our people.
That was the message Davis-Murdoch, the co-president and a founding member of the Health Association of African Canadians, said she and others delivered to decision-makers in the Nova Scotia government late last year.