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The first issue of Vital Signs is published by the National Black Women's Health Project.

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Highlighting issues such as HIV/AIDS, Black infant and maternal mortality, self-care, and reproductive health, Vital Signs becomes the first magazine in the U.S. to solely focus on Black women's health.