Medical Racism Was Meant to Hurt Black Women And It Does
What is a lived experience for many Black women is only being talked about by the mainstream in recent weeks. Decades of catalogued data and research shows that the medical industry willfully withholds lifesaving information and treatments from Black women at nearly every engagement throughout their lives. I use the term “willfully” to describe this phenomenon because there is nothing preventing medical professionals from doing their jobs by providing this information.
Despite much research around the medical community’s negligence toward Black women, few viable solutions have coalesced. For instance, since at least 2008, TheBody has been reporting about the consistently disproportionate effect that HIV has on Black women. To no avail, it seems; we are still writing about the same issues that afflicted Black women back then, as if they were brand new today.