Ayabas - Instituto da MuLher Negra do Piaui: Mobilizacao para 3a Conferencia de Saude do Trabal...: OFICIO CIRCULAR No 001/2014 Teresina, 25 de fevereiro de 2014 Aos: Secretarios Municipais de ... Organization emphasizes growing concerns about the health of black women; thesis focuses on black womans ability to cope with the challenges posed by prejudiceRate ThisOrganization discusses the need to address specific health necessities of black womenGrowing concerns about the health of black women in the state of Piaui (1)Black women develop specific health problems, diseases are inherent to the genes of ethnicity, combined with racismWhats different about the health of black women? Its the first question when discussing the health and conditions of this parcel of the population.For the president of the Instituto da Mulher Negra do Piaui (Black Womens Institute of Piaui Ayabas Halda Regina, black women suffer at least two types of prejudice, racial and gender, where she considers that there is a significant difference between black and non-black women, especially in quality of physical and mental health.Halda Regina of the Black Womens Institute of Piaui AyabasObviously, this social difference directly affects the health of black women. We black women are prone to under high pressure, also because of our condition: unemployment, heads of households, social condition, difficulties in ascension, among others, besides the very violence suffered by black women in their work environment (harassment), terrible service in health, and at the time of pregnancy, when at the moment of delivery, according to the reports of some women, care for them is time consuming, because of the stigma that we are stronger and more resistant to pain.Improprieties such as these are ignored because of a false sense of equality, as the question that initiates this matter. Black womens health is directly related to racism and especially the institutional type, still according to the president of Ayabas.Black Womens Institute of Piaui AYABAS hosts the First State Seminar of Black Women and Health in June (Instituto da Mulher Negra do Piaui AYABAS, o I SEMINARIO ESTADUAL DE MULHERES NEGRAS E SAUDE)Many women need to impose themselves daily to combat racial and gender discrimination and to ensure to black women decent health care.Besides the institutional abandonment, there are risks of major physical illnesses in this population, such as hypertension, sickle cell anemia, cervical cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, pelvic inflammatory disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, myomas or fibroids.Difficulties in health careOne of the difficulties is to guide these women in order to denounce the practices of racial discrimination in health services and train health professionals on the topics of race, gender and health from the perspective of human rights, says Halda Regina.State of Piaui in northeastern BrazilThere are no public policies directed in Piaui or in Teresina (state capital), nor data on the health situation of black women in Piaui. What is known is that currently one of the main problems of women is the violence to which they are subjected, be it sexual or psychological aggression.At the national level there are policies for the black population, besides decrees which point to each state