Paulette Hamilton, the MP for Birmingham Erdington and chair of the all-party parliamentary group on black health, said: “The findings of this landmark survey confirm what black women have known for decades: our reproductive health is in crisis. Yet our pain is too often dismissed, underresearched and inadequately treated.
“The fact that black women are 69% more likely to suffer from serious reproductive conditions than white women is not just a disparity, it is systemic neglect.”
She added: “It is imperative that we address these disparities by investing in targeted research, prioritising culturally competent care, and dismantling the structural racism that leaves black women bearing the brunt of reproductive injustice.”
The actual difference is:
Brown, who said she felt dismissed by NHS consultants at first, eventually had surgery that found 25 large fibroids measuring up to 12cm each. After being diagnosed Brown, from a mixed heritage background, found out that black and mixed women were at a higher risk of developing fibroids.
And that’s actually it.
Stark ethnic inequalities were revealed by the survey. More than a third (38.1%) of black women reported a reproductive condition, compared with 27.7% of white women, making black women 69% more likely to have such a condition than their counterparts after adjusting for age. This was caused by a large difference in the percentage of women reporting uterine fibroids: 19.8% of black women reported having the condition, compared with only 5% of their white counterparts.
It’s one of them genetic things. Like the fair being more prone to skin cancers, West Africans to sickle cell, Mediterranians thalassaemia and so on. It’s not the system, not capitalism, not structural, it’s genes. But for the shrieking harpy….