Bebashi in the News – Billy Penn (August 19): Dashboard confirms Philly’s monkeypox vaccine disparity: Most cases affect people of color, while most doses are going to white people

Bebashi’s Executive Director, Sebrina Tate, was recently interviewed by Billy Penn on Philadelphia’s monkeypox vaccine disparity.

“Honestly, it hurts,” said Sebrina Tate, the executive director of Bebashi, a social services nonprofit born out of the HIV/AIDS epidemic that serves mostly people of color. “We see these health disparities along so many diagnoses, so it’s not surprising. But each time there’s something else, it’s more and more painful as a representative in the health field, but also as a Black woman.”

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