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YWCHAC 2nd Annual Teen Health & Wellness Film Festival
2nd Annual Teen Health & Wellness
FILM FESTIVAL
TRIBECA CINEMAS
54 VARICK ST, NYC
FREE HIV TESTING
Profiles of Hope: How cancer survivor, Wilhelmina Obatola Grant brings awareness to breast cancer through art–Part 2
Wilhelmina Obatola Grant is a resident of Harlem, mixed-media assemblage artist, and breast cancer survivor. She uses objects she finds to create art and uses it to bring awareness to breast cancer and violence against women.
Mammogram Mondays!
Every 1st Monday of each month, from 9am-4pm, Helen B. Atkinson Health Center offers free mammograms to women, 40 years and older, without health insurance.
The center is located at 81 W. 115th Street (between Lenox and 5th Ave.)
For other services, the center is open Monday-Friday (9-5) and Saturdays (9-4)
Profiles of Hope: How cancer survivor Wilhelmina Obatola Grant brings awareness to breast cancer through art
Wilhelmina Obatola Grant is a resident of Harlem, mixed-media assemblage artist, and breast cancer survivor. She uses objects she finds to create art and uses it to bring awareness to breast cancer and violence against women.
In this article she talks about how she got started as an artist and how her art has helped her deal with cancer.
Profiles of Hope: Wilhelmina Obatola Grant's journey with breast cancer
Wilhelmina Obatola is a resident of Harlem, mixed-media assemblage artist, and breast cancer survivor. She uses objects she finds to create art that brings awareness to breast cancer and violence against women.
She talks to GHH about her personal fight with this disease.
Women and HIV in New York City
WOMEN AND HIV IN NEW YORK CITY
By Barbara Gause
Nyema Clarke, 34, contracted HIV approximately 7 years ago. Looking back, she says she would’ve done things differently. She wasn’t aware of the disease until it was too late. “I never knew that there was counseling to help prevent me from catching the disease,” says Ms. Clarke, who lives uptown. “I just thought that I should get tested and that I might be infected, and I didn’t find out until the disease had become AIDS. ”
Did you know...African American women can get osteoporosis and the sooner you know you have it, the better?
Osteoporosis is a bone disease that affects some women after they reach menopause. People with this disease have low bone density, which makes it very easy for bones to break. Even though African American women are less likely to get osteoporosis than Caucasian and Asian women, many people wrongly believe that African American women are not at risk at all.
Spanish Language Support Group for Hispanic Women Undergoing Breast Cancer Treatment
Co-sponsored by WAR, Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Social Work Services and SHARE, the Spanish language support group meets every two weeks and offers support, comfort, and health care information
Revlon's Run/Walk for Women's Cancers
Your commitment to raising funds and awareness in the fight against women's cancers begins the day you register for the EIF REVLON Run/Walk For Women. Take the first step and register online or print out the registration form and mail it in.
Community Health Fair - Go Red for Women
FREE! Blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol testing; Nutrition and diet counseling; healthing eating demos; AND MORE!
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