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Health: NAACP and Pfzer

Pfizer, NAACP Unite to Impact Black Health Care and AIDS Prevention

A DVD promoting HIV/AIDS prevention among black women is one of the first national projects developed in an unprecedented collaboration between the NAACP and Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company.

Pfizer, according to NAACP executives, will also serve as the exclusive sponsor of the Health Fair at the NAACP's national convention in July, providing free health screenings and health information to the more than 12,000 blacks expected to be in attendance.

The three-year, $1 million partnership between Pfizer and the nation’s oldest civil rights organization formalizes a long-standing relationship and will now accelerate distribution of health-care research and development of national advocacy programs for black Americans, officials said.

“This partnership is important because racial and ethnic health disparities disproportionately impact African-Americans,” Lucy Perez, national health director for the NAACP’s Health Advocacy Division, told BlackAmericaWeb.com last week.