WASHINGTON, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthy Americas Foundation (HAF), the supporting organization of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, today announced the launch of the Hispanic Family Equity Fund. The $100 million fund aims to advance equity in health and well-being for Hispanic families in communities nationwide. Centene Corporation through its foundation The Centene Charitable Foundation have pledged to match the first $1 million in corporate donations to the fund and issued a call to companies and foundations to contribute to the initiative and help play an active role in reducing inequities that challenge Hispanic communities.

Cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanic women and the second-leading cause of death among Hispanic men, yet there’s not a full understanding of their experience as cancer survivors from the time they complete primary treatment onward.

Women from majority Black and Hispanic communities face a substantially higher rate of severe childbirth complications compared to white women, according to new data out Thursday further highlighting the dire outcomes Black women and other women of color face in childbirth in the U.S.

The data, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to a public records request, gives a sweeping national look at the race and ethnicity of vaccinated people on a state-by-state basis. Yet nearly half of those vaccination records are missing race or ethnicity information.

There are a lot of ways Dr. Kent Bream would describe the lines of people waiting, sometimes for hours, for COVID-19 vaccines at his community health clinic in West Philadelphia. Eager. Impatient. Frustrated, even. But "hesitant" doesn't come to mind.