RESOURCES

Here The Black Frontline offers you additional background, analysis and stories from around the world to further expand and contextualize the lived experience brought to you by The Black Frontline.

For each territory, there are 10 links to stories from publications for you to read, engage, and gain further understanding into the world and work of global Black healthcare workers.

USA

Below you will find the links to articles offering analysis, expanding the lived experience and contextualizing the issues faced by Black healthcare workers across the US.
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COVID will not kill you as fast as a bullet': Black doctors go from frontlines of pandemic to protests
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/black-doctors-coronavirus-frontlines-join-protests-fight-racism

What Black Doctors And Nurses Want You To Know About COVID-19
https://www.essence.com/feature/black-doctors-nurses-coronavirus-covid-19/

White Coats for Black Lives: 9 Medical Professionals Share Why They’re Protesting for Black Lives Matter
https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/white-coats-for-black-lives-matter

Love Letter to Black America
https://www.msm.edu/RSSFeedArticles/2020/November/blackloveletter.php

The ‘Black Tax’ and COVID-19: Amid Pandemic, Black Doctors Carry Double Load
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-02-01/black-doctors-covid-burden-patients-social-ills-and-workplace-bigotry

Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability & Refuting Black Pathology
https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-refuting-black-pathology

Say her name: Dr. Susan Moore
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/26/say-her-name-dr-susan-moore

COVID-19: Black Nurses Risking Their Lives On The Frontlines
https://www.essence.com/feature/covid-19-black-nurses-uk-usa/

Nurses Respond To George Floyd Protests During The Pandemic
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/06/9849136/nurse-black-lives-matter-protest-response

Bullied and disciplined: How Black nurses are being failed
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/workforce/bullied-and-disciplined-how-black-nurses-are-being-failed-02-12-2021/

Recognizing history of Black nurses, a first step to addressing racism and discrimination in nursing
https://theconversation.com/recognizing-history-of-black-nurses-a-first-step-to-addressing-racism-and-discrimination-in-nursing-125538

‘Absolutely defeated’: Black nurses struggle with mental health support while battling Covid-19 https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/health/black-nurses-mental-health-wellness/index.html

UK

Below you will find the links to articles offering analysis, expanding the lived experience and contextualizing the issues faced by Black healthcare workers across the UK.
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25% of BAME non-executive directors in NHS ‘have seen discrimination’ at work
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/20/25-of-bame-non-executive-directors-in-nhs-have-seen-discrimination-at-work

Report reveals: NHS risks losing black and Asian doctors over ‘intolerable’ racism levels
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/15/nhs-risks-losing-black-asian-doctors-racism-bma-report

White NHS nurses twice as likely as black and Asian colleagues to be promoted
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/08/white-nhs-nurses-twice-as-likely-as-black-and-asian-colleagues-to-be-promoted-study

UK government accused of ‘explaining away’ Covid race issues
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/05/uk-government-accused-of-explaining-away-covid-race-issues

Exclusive: Nurses reveal stories of racism and demand change
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/research-and-innovation/exclusive-nurses-reveal-stories-of-racism-and-demand-change-04-03-2022/

NHS Race Observatory calls for support of health inequality leads
https://www.nhsrho.org/press-release/nhs-race-observatory-calls-for-support-of-health-inequality-leads/

Racism which impacts healthcare staff endangers patient care
https://mdxminds.com/2021/11/22/racism-which-impacts-healthcare-staff-endangers-patient-care/

COVID inquiry: Anger grows after report finds white medics had better access to PPE than black and Asian staff
https://inews.co.uk/news/health/covid-inquiry-report-white-medics-better-access-ppe-than-black-staff-1244383

A long way to go – NHS minority staff share their stories
https://features.kingsfund.org.uk/2020/07/ethnic-minority-nhs-staff-racism-discrimination/

Black nurses ‘targeted’ to deny them promotions
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/02/09/black-nurses-targeted-to-deny-them-promotion/

The story of black nurses in the UK didn’t start with Windrush
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/13/black-nurses-in-uk-didnt-start-with-windrush-covid-19-deaths

National Enquiry into the UK Government’s response to COVID-19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/public-inquiry-into-uk-covid-19-response-opens

From the front lines, Black nurses battle twin pandemics of racism and coronavirus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/europe/black-nurses-nhs-discrimination-gbr-intl/index.html

NHS accused of racism as black nurses report being put in Covid areas
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-racism-nurses-covid-b2028860.html

GHANA

Below you will find the links to articles offering analysis, expanding the lived experience and contextualizing the issues faced by Black healthcare workers across Ghana.
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Covid-19 deaths in Africa to fall by nearly 94% in 2022
https://www.africanews.com/2022/06/02/covid-19-deaths-in-africa-to-fall-by-nearly-94-in-2022-who/

Covid-19 in Ghana: Concerned doctors for Ghana petition Akufo-Addo against mandatory COVID vaccination
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-59980250

South Africa's Aspen COVID-19 vaccine plant risks closure after no orders, executive says
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/safricas-aspen-covid-19-vaccine-plant-risks-closure-after-no-orders-executive-2022-05-01/

A Ghanaian doctor’s perspective on COVID19 vaccine inequity
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/ghanian-doctors-perspective-covid-19-vaccine-inequity

Health workers fear sector is ill-prepared to fight pandemic
https://thebftonline.com/2021/02/01/health-workers-fear-sector-is-ill-prepared-to-fight-pandemic/

The Black Frontline
https://thebftonline.com/2021/01/21/the-black-frontline-by-esther-armah/

Nigeria and Ghana’s health systems stand in contrast
https://www.ft.com/content/88ecd9f7-3bb5-45cc-9521-2cb6279ae04d

Africa deserves more COVID help
https://www.ft.com/content/fff9c354-dde5-4a4c-ab48-f11f289c2da9

Ghana and Netherlands: fighting COVID together
https://thebftonline.com/2020/08/03/netherlands-and-ghana-fighting-covid-19-together-an-overview-of-funding-and-activities/

Key workers in Ghana during the COVID pandemic
https://www.ilo.org/legacy/english/intserv/working-papers/wp061/index.html

Parliament passes National Vaccine Institute Bill
https://citinewsroom.com/2023/02/parliament-passes-national-vaccine-institute-bill/

A health worker on the COVID-19 pandemic frontlines in Ghana
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11nlzb9hr

Exodus for greener pastures: 100 nurses leave Pantang Hospital
https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/exodus-for-greener-pastures-100-nurses-leave-pantang-hospital.html

Emotional justice: what black women want and need
https://theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/emotional-justice-what-black-women-want-and-need

Articles in Medium

The Black Frontline – A Journey of Sonic Blackness – Sept. 27th 2021
https://medium.com/@theblackfrontline/the-black-frontline-a-journey-of-sonic-blackness-in-the-covid-pandemic-d91130339249

Self-Care in a Time of COVID – October 18th 2021
https://medium.com/@theblackfrontline/self-care-in-a-time-of-covid-3ecaa8af37c9

The Future of Public Health – November 2nd 2021
https://medium.com/@theblackfrontline/the-future-of-public-health-df740f71a58e