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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. ....
Posted: May 28, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: May 28 Sharon Davis-Murdoch is with the Health Association of African Canadians.(Submitted by Sharon Davis-Murdoch) Sharon Davis-Murdoch lobbied for years for health services designed specifically to meet the needs of Black women in the Halifax area. Her determination, and that of the other volunteers behind the Health Association of African Canadians, has finally paid off. The Nova Scotia government has given the group $200,000 so it can pursue its goal to create what s being called the Sisterhood Initiative, a community-driven effort that would deliver health services geared to Black women. Well, you have to say we are persistent and resilient, Davis-Murdoch said of last week s announcement. ....
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News Gina Jones-Wilson, president of the Upper Hammonds Plains Community Development Association and community coordinator for the vaccine clinic held in Upper Hammonds Plains, says it’s a long-overdue development. “We are effected by so many diseases on a higher scale than most, so in order for the health system to address our needs, they need that data,” she told The Coast. In the US, we know that 41 percent of Black people have high blood pressure, compared to just 27 percent of white folks. There are no such stats in Canada, but Jones-Wilson says high blood pressure and diabetes are more common in Black communities. She says when community groups get together, sometimes the conversation turns to health problems, and the group realizes the same issues are effecting everyone in the room or are present in their family history. It’s about five or six of those diseases that were in every Black community here in Nova Scotia, says Jones-Wilson. ....
A second town hall gave information on vaccines and allowed members of the ANS community to ask questions. “There is a lot of misinformation about the vaccine, and so with that in mind, we put on the town hall,” says doctor David Haase, a retired infectious diseases and internal medicine physician, and past co-president of HAAC. “Recognizing that for the Black communities mistrust is not just the vaccine, it’s much broader, it’s embedded in systemic racism and the way that our population has been treated or mistreated over the years.” Haase and doctors faced questions about everything from whether the vaccine contained microchips to whether it would alter someone’s DNA. “We had doctor Gaynor Watson-Creed, the deputy chief medical officer of health, give a very nice talk about the vaccine as well and go through the different vaccines,” he tells The Coast in a Zoom call. ....