BMHI - Black Men's Health Initiative

ORIGINS

The Black Men's Health Initiative was chartered as a non-profit corporation in South Carolina in March 2005 as a vehicle to educate African American and men of the African Diaspora about the risks and complications of chronic disease. The Black Men's Health Initiative (BMHI) is focused on community competent prevention education and innovative interventions that will have direct results in lowering risk and improving the health status of Black men. The BMHI will couple lightheartedness and humor with a direct and frank approach to engaging Black men around health.

cALENDER

February 2012
5th: BMHI Super Sunday Halftime Men's Health Dialogues - hosted in Durham, Wilson and Garysburg, NC

11th: Men's Health Breakfast, Emmanuel AME Church, Durham, NC

12th: Breast and Prostate Cancer Forum - St. James AME Church, Winston-Salem, NC

PRODUCTS

According to the CDC Life Expectancy Charts of 2008, in the U.S. an affluent white woman lives on average to be 81.1 years of age, 14 years longer than poor Black men, who live on average to 66.9 years.