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Health equity is a human right. We must solve it together. Now is the time.
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Inequity Systemically Harms People of Color
The COVID-19 pandemic and glaring examples of racial injustice are casting a bright light on an old problem in America. Health inequity is obvious and widespread. It contributes to worse outcomes and higher risk for diabetes and many other diseases. And it undermines the wellbeing of our most underserved communities.
Community Connection
Easily find the diabetes program or resources in your area you've been looking for. Search for almost anything from medical care to education, to nutrition and health. Find resources in every zip code so you can get the help you need wherever you are.
Inaction is no longer an option.
Cure
Ensure diabetes research better accounts for risks facing communities of color: aim innovations to serve people of color specifically and more impactfully.
Care
Boost access to quality care for people with diabetes and prediabetes where they live and work. Overcome socioeconomic barriers that raise risks to people of color.
Cost
Make diabetes drugs, devices, supplies, and health insurance more affordable and accessible. People of color account for over 75% of low-income Americans.
Cuisine
Help people with diabetes and prediabetes with their unique nutritional needs. Offer better, more culturally relevant guidance and access to food that’s good for them.
Connect
Build community to help change behavior, partner with allies, grow advocacy, and ensure people of color are central to the mission of being Connected for Life®.
Exercise your rights
Amputation Prevention Alliance
Black Americans face rates of amputations up to four times higher than non-Hispanic white Americans. LatinX communities are 50 percent more likely to have an amputation and indigenous communities face amputations rates that are two times higher than those among non-Hispanic white Americans. We have created resources to address this crisis.
Health Equity Now Partners
Working to address health disparities for people with diabetes.
Health Equity Now Sponsors
