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Black maternal health disparities focus of Toledo forum

Black women continue to face disproportionate risks in pregnancy and childbirth, with higher rates of complications and preventable loss than their white counterparts.

Tatyana Ali Talks About Improving Maternity Care For Black and Indigenous Mothers

Tatyana Ali has become a leading voice for maternal health equity.

Black women are more likely to experience pregnancy trauma and have their pain ignored

Black mothers in the U.S. are three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Actress Tatyana Ali became an advocate after her own awful experience giv...

Maternal health advocates await key Texas report on pregnancy-related deaths

Abide Women’s Health Services says up-to-date information about pregnancy-related and maternal deaths can be critical to preventing future deaths. “They can have education, inco...

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America pledges $100M to cut US maternal mortality rate in half

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the U...

Actor Tatyana Ali is advocating for Black and Indigenous maternal health

Actor Tatyana Ali says her healing journey after a traumatic childbirth has inspired her advocacy for Black maternal health, including support for midwives, doulas and other birth...

Sudden infant deaths rise among babies born to Black mothers, widening mortality gap

After years of declines in sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID), rates have been ticking up again, particularly among babies born to Black mothers, new research shows. The findin...

Walmart heir Olivia Walton didn’t get the postpartum care she needed. Now, she’s investing $100M to halve the U.S. mater...

Olivia Walton, who founded Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, is using “every tool in the toolbox” to improve maternal health—and called on employers to ramp up their benefits.

Kenyan mothers die by the hundreds in childbirth as health care remains weak

Kilifi County in Kenya saw 532 mothers die for every 100,000 live births while the national average was 355 deaths, according to the latest government data in 2022.

Everything to Know About Mayor Mamdani’s New Maternal Health Doula Initiative

Mayor Mamdani's program expands support for Black and Latino families with free doula services across the city.

After a premature birth, North Texas mom found help. Now state invests $4 million in maternal health program

A North Texas program designed to improve outcomes for mothers and babies is getting a big bump from the state. The Maternal Health Accelerator (MHA), a coalition created to add...

Here’s Why Transgender Families Need To Be Included In Maternal Health Conversations [Op-Ed]

Check out this excerpt from the forthcoming book, 'The Black Papers: A Policy Agenda for Black Liberation in the 21st Century.'

Tatyana Ali’s experience highlights an often-overlooked part of Black maternal health — the need to get up and bust a mo...

Black experts in physical and dance movement therapy break down how movement is vital during postpartum recovery. When Tatyana Ali

Kamala Harris, Abdul El-Sayed Put Black Maternal Health at Center of Michigan Senate Race

At Birth Detroit on Tuesday, former Vice President Kamala Harris joined Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for a conversation with medical providers and women’s health ad...

Broward Healthy Start Coalition Supports Maternal Health Initiatives

Campaign promotes free, confidential access to maternal health, behavioral health and early childhood resources through Connect Program   BROWARD COUNTY  — Broward Healthy Start Co...

Medicaid cuts put maternity care at risk as hospitals close labor and delivery units

Fifty-two maternity wards have closed since the Trump administration’s sweeping Medicaid legislation was announced, with more closures expected as hospitals

‘Too many funerals’: Wisconsin’s Black infant mortality crisis is harming generations

Louisiana Activists Draw Links Between Petrochemical, Climate Harm to Maternal Health

Click to expand Image Kaitlyn Joshua with her daughter, Lauryn, age 5, outside their hom...

Conference focuses on improving maternal health

Health leaders convened in Youngstown to address maternal health disparities and infant mortality rates while highlighting resources available to expecting families.

Public Health Begins With Listening: Lessons From Zambia and Malawi on Reducing Maternal Mortality

In the Zambian districts where it operated, the five-year Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative helped reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 41 percent. Its success relied not on...

Hidden Pregnancy Resources Every Black Parent Should Know (By Trimester)

Get free doulas, baby gear, and expert medical advice. This guide reveals hidden pregnancy resources every Black parent needs to thrive. Read more!

MedCity FemFwd: How Midwives Can Support the Maternal Health Crisis

In this episode, we’re joined by Amanda Shafton, practicing CNM and national director of midwifery at Ob Hospitalist Group. We discuss the benefits of physician/midwifery collabora...

Maryland artist creates Black maternal health flag out of hospital baby blankets

A Maryland artist turned familiar pink, blue and white hospital blankets for newborn babies into a powerful call to action. Lex Marie, of Prince George’s County, used the blanke...

A new report highlights the scarcity of maternal care in rural NC

One in six North Carolina counties is a maternity care desert, with no birthing facilities or obstetric clinicians, according to a new report from the March of Dimes. About 61,000...