Fibroids: What Sisters need to know
Queen Nzingha Lecture 28. Fibroids. Women of African descent suffer far more from fibroids than white women but mainstream agencies have failed to highlight information on this topic.
Fibroids are more common in Black women than white women with Black women being more likely to develop multiple, larger and more aggressive fibroids. With this in mind it is important that black women are empowered with accurate reliable information about fibroids including prevention and treatment options.
In this lecture Abi Begho, founder of The Lake Foundation, will provide an overview of fibroids discussing what fibroids are, symptoms, risk factors and prevention.
Speakers:
Abi Begho is the Founder of The Lake Foundation a charity that
Medical Apartheid:
Above photo: Packed house at SOAS September 2014 for Medical Apartheid
400 years of European experiments on African Bodies A review of the scientific experiments and research performed on Black people to refine various drugs and medical treatments for use with white people
This presentation will draw on Harriet Washington’s book of the same name, various
documentation from World Wars 1/2, Aboriginal history, Vietnam, US Prisons and Porton Down. It covers:
*Radioactive People: North Africa and the Pacific
*Birth and Crowd Control: The South African Solution, Project Coast
*National Security Memorandum 200
*Vic Mackie and Congressional Inquiries
*The ‘War on Drugs’, Haiti and Jamaica
Black Victims of the Germans 1904 to World War 2, 5.12.09
Black Victims of the Germans 1904 to World War 2 Saturday 5th December 1pm-4.30pm Imperial War Museum Lambeth Road SE1 Tube: Lambeth North. Adm: Free. First come, first served Bring pen and pad and be on time www.iwm.org.uk What we know today as the Holocaust was researched, rehearsed and refined in Africa with African people […]