Posted on 18 October 2022. Tags: Department of Health, DOHMH, Environment, Mosquito, Pesticide, West Nile Virus
At the Bronx Community Board 2 meeting last month, Roland Lopez stood up to complain about lack of notice for pesticide spraying by the Department of Health in his neighborhood, Longwood’s historic district. Lopez, who is the board’s environmental chair, claimed that the DOHMH is not doing an adequate job notifying the public. They’re not […]
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Posted in Health, Southern Bronx
Posted on 05 October 2022. Tags: Bronx, Food Insecurity, New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx
The “three sisters”— beans, corn, and squash—grow in a semicircle shaped plot at the far end of Edible Academy’s vegetable garden in the Bronx. Beans grow wrapped around corn stems for support. The roots of beans fortify the soil with nitrogen, important for the growth of corn and squash. Orange, yellow, and green squash have […]
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Posted in Bronx Beats, Bronx Neighborhoods, Education, Health
Posted on 25 September 2022.
On Southern Boulevard and Westchester Avenue in the South Bronx, more than a dozen people in red shirts filled the intersection Saturday. For the first time in two years, Community Board 2 held its annual AIDS walk. “Everything was focused on covid… AIDS is still an epidemic,” said Luis Marrero, a member of the board’s […]
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Health, Southern Bronx
Posted on 22 September 2022. Tags: Bronx, Bronx Borough President, community outreach, health, Monkeypox, Public Health, The Bronx
Bronx community leaders gathered for a night of Monkeypox outreach Wednesday, to raise awareness about the spread of Monkeypox in the Bronx and address the disproportionate impact the disease has on Black and Latino communities. Members of the community were given information about vaccination resources and educational pamphlets on how to protect themselves from Monkeypox. […]
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Posted in Bronx Life, Community Resources, Health
Posted on 15 October 2019. Tags: acupuncture, drug addiction, Lincoln Hospital, Mott Haven, New York, nyc health and hospitals, South Bronx
The Mott Haven Lincoln Recovery Center was once a popular therapeutic refuge for drug addicts, but where have the patients gone?
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Posted in Bronx Life, Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Health, Mental Health, south bronx, Southern Bronx
Posted on 13 October 2019. Tags: barber, barbershops, church, Health Care, health outreach, health problems, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Hunts Point, Morrisania, Mott Haven, South Bronx
While New York celebrates declining HIV rates, healthcare advocates in the Bronx narrow their focus to where services aren’t reaching people.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Front Page, Health, south bronx, Southern Bronx
Posted on 13 October 2019. Tags: Addiction, feature, health, homelessness, opioid crisis, suboxone
Prescriptions of life-saving buprenorphine lag in the Bronx. A legacy of bureaucracy and stigma are to blame.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Health, Mental Health
Posted on 12 October 2019.
“With over 20,000 overdose deaths under Governor Cuomo’s tenure, his legacy will be marked by his choice to either stand with New Yorkers or stand in the way of their survival,” according to an advocacy group for overdose prevention sites.
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Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Community Resources, Featured, Front Page, Health, Politics, Southern Bronx