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Critical Shortage of Primary Care Doctors in America
Legislation should include additional funding for medical school students focusing on general (primary care), internal medicine and family medicine.
Urging the Department of Housing and Urban Development to Enact Safeguards Against Abuses in Contracts for Deeds
The NAACP requests the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Rural Housing Service of the Department of Agriculture to enact regulations and safeguards against predatory uses of Contracts for Deeds, and to prohibit the practice of using Contracts for Deeds to unjustly evict low-income families from their homes.
Insurer Practice Impacting Healthcare Access
Units will engage in activities to educate their respective communities on the Patient's Bill of Rights, help patients understand their insurance benefits and policies and encourage its communities and members to take charge of their health by researching their prescriptions and having detailed discussions with their physicians
Encouraging Minority Participation in Clinical Trials
Resolve Pertaining to the Human Rights and Healthcare for Women in Prison and the Dangerous Policies and Inconsistent Practice of Shackling Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery
To Educate and prevent Further Spread of Hepatitis C Within the African American Communities
Promotion of Good Mental Health
The NAACP continue to strongly advocate through legislation for Medicaid expansion in the 22 states currently without and maintain expansion in the 28 states and the District of Columbia that currently have it;
Home Appraisal and Mortgage Lending Discrimination
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) calls for the full enforcement of Fair Housing laws and that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) should be fully funded to ensure compliance
In Support of Establishing Environmental and Climate Justice as a Standing Committee of Branches
the NAACP commit to address environmental inequities at the local level by establishing Environmental and Climate Justice as a Standing Committee of all Units.
Extension of Temporary Protected Status to All Haitians
NAACP Joins the United Nations in Promoting and Celebrating the International Decade for People of African Decent
The NAACP joins the United Nations in celebrating and promoting the International Decade for People of African Descent
Support for Equality for the New Cubans and African-Americans US-Cuba Relationship
The NAACP joins the United Nations in celebrating and promoting the International Decade for People of African Descent