Friday, October 1, 2010

Community Voice program tries to reduce infant mortality among African-Americans

Bill DiPaolo

Community Voice, a five-week program in Palm Beach County, Florida, teaches how diet, exercise and behavior can reduce the high death rate among African-American infants.

afriar14 Thirteen-year-old Jeremy Thicklin is on a mission to teach his friends how to prevent African-American babies from dying.
The slender eighth-grader at Roosevelt Middle School was one of 212 volunteers who graduated Saturday from Community Voice, a five-week program teaching them how diet, exercise and behavior can reduce the high death rate among African-American infants. African-American babies die more than twice as often before their first birthday as do non-Hispanic whites, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Community Voice program tries to reduce infant mortality among African-Americans. - WPHL

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