08/16/2021
Thanks to our Executive Director Katie Porterfield for her dedication and contributions to the Houston area report of Closing the Breast Cancer Gap: A Roadmap to Save the Lives of Black Women in America, written by The Susan G. Komen African American Health Equity Initiative (AAHEI) . 👏🏾💕🖤
“For years people have talked about the disparities and suggested we just need to get more Black women screened. Yet in most cases, Black women are getting screened at higher rates than white women, and they are still dying more often,” said Paula Schneider, Komen’s President and CEO. “The disparity is not a simple matter of access to screening – it’s a perfect storm of issues that have been brewing for a long time and span across every aspect of the health care system and society at large. Black women are dying more than white women because all our systems have failed them, and continue to fail them, at every step in their breast cancer journey. Good news is there are solutions to elevate substandard care, the availability and affordability of diagnostics and follow up care, address unfair public policies, insurance practices and implicit bias and racism she encounters daily. It will take all of us working together to create a health equity revolution, delivering the changes needed to save lives, and Stand for H.E.R.”
Susan G. Komen today launched Stand for H.E.R. – a Health Equity Revolution, to decrease the gap in breast cancer mortality between Black and white women.
