Impact

Our Impact

Last August our organization coordinated with Trenton Health Team and The American Cancer Society to provide neighborhood screenings at Greg Grant Park. Our goal was to educate and screen the East Trenton community for a variety of health conditions that currently afflict African American disproportionately. 

Statistics according to WebMD describing how African Americans are impacted disproportionately by treatable medical conditions. 

"Diabetes is 60% more common in black Americans than in white Americans. Blacks are up to 2.5 times more likely to suffer a limb amputation and up to 5.6 times more likely to suffer kidney disease than other people with diabetes.
African-Americans are three times more likely to die of asthma than white Americans.

Deaths from lung scarring -- sarcoidosis -- are 16 times more common among blacks than among whites. The disease recently killed former NFL star Reggie White at age 43.

Despite lower tobacco exposure, black men are 50% more likely than white men to get lung cancer.

Strokes kill 4 times more 35- to 54-year-old black Americans than white Americans. Blacks have nearly twice the first-time stroke risk of whites.
Blacks develop high blood pressure earlier in life -- and with much higher blood pressure levels -- than whites.

Nearly 42% of black men and more than 45% of black women aged 20 and older have high blood pressure.

Cancer treatment is equally successful for all races. Yet black men have a 40% higher cancer death rate than white men. African-American women have a 20% higher cancer death rate than white women."