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REACH US Haitian Diabetes Action Community Initiative (HDACI) is funded
through CDC (Center for Disease Control)
under the “REACH US”
grant to eliminate disparities in health status experienced by racial and
ethnic minority populations. This program is a continuum body of
knowledge initiated by sets of projects funded under the original REACH 2010 Coalition.
REACH US Haitian
Diabetes Action Community Initiative was created in response to the
community survey results. In retrospect, the Metro-Boston Haitian REACH 2010
coalition recently repeated the community survey, interviewing 1,000
Haitian households. In a preliminary analysis of this data, 21.9 percent
of the respondents stated that diabetes was the most important health
concern of the Haitian community. The proximity of diabetes in Haitian
families is manifested on the church communities with a lot of cases of
diabetes among the old and not so old parishioners.
With no access to quality data, it is difficult to know exactly
the burden of Diabetes in the US Haitian community. Diabetes is
documented as a major cause of death in the larger black population. Due
to lack of adequate data on Haitian populations, CCHER and many Haitian
and non-Haitian providers are building local capacity to address the
social issues affecting the community at large.
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