August 13, 2014
Pernessa Seele, founder and CEO of The Balm in Gilead, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the health of the African Diaspora by building the capacity of faith communities to address life-threatening diseases, will help conduct a Town Hall Community Action Forum on Aug. 14 at Trinity United Church of Christ, 400 W. 95th St., to address Hepatitis C's choke-hold on the community.
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Town Hall Meeting to Address Hepatitis C
According to the Centers for Disease Control, (CDC), Hepatitis C is more prevalent among African Americans, who are twice as likely as Caucasians to be infected with the disease and unless this trend s reverses, the CDC predicts that deaths due to Hepatitis C will double or even triple in the next 20 years.