We are honoured to welcome you back to Series 8 of our Impacts on the Global Black Lifespan Journey. Our 52-week mission remains steadfast: tracing the health trajectory of the...

Stroke does not arrive without warning. It builds quietly—year after year—inside a system that fails to detect risk early and protect consistently. In Ghana, hypertension and diabetes often progress unnoticed, not because people do not care about their health, but because routine screening is uneven, medications are not always affordable, and access to specialist care depends heavily on geography. By the time a patient reaches the hospital, the damage is frequently advanced. What appears to be a sudden medical emergency is often the predictable outcome of years of accumulated system gaps. Nea...

Based on the provided sources, Obesity and High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) are identified as the primary metabolic drivers of the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) crisis in the Americas, with the Caribbean...

What the Caribbean reveals—more clearly than almost anywhere else—is the long shadow cast by systems never designed for longevity. Health infrastructures across the region were not built to protect life across a full human lifespan. They were built to manage labor: to keep bodies functional, productive, and replaceable. When those same systems are tasked with sustaining people through decades of chronic disease, aging, and environmental stress, they strain—and then fail. This is why illness in the Caribbean so often feels normalized rather than prevented. Why dialysis units expand while nutr...