Human rights group says Mississippi failed to prevent cervical cancer deaths for black women

Human rights group says Mississippi failed to prevent cervical cancer deaths for black women

Mississippi state and the US federal governments have neglected to protect black women from cervical cancer deaths in the rural Mississippi Delta region, Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI)  and Human Rights Watch released in a report on Wednesday. The report states that “there are persistent and glaring racial disparities in rates of cervical cancer deaths in the US.” The report documents published th…

US: Mississippi Delta Urgently Needs Better Cervical Cancer Care

Click to expand Image © 2022 Laura Freeman for Human Rights Watch (Jackson, Mississippi) – The Mississippi state and United States federal governments are failing to take steps to prevent cervical cancer deaths for Black women in the Mississippi Delta, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI) and Human Rights Watch said in a report released today during cervical cancer awareness month. Cervical cancer i…