infant mortality

Black women across America are facing a significant health crisis: They are dying disproportionately from pregnancy-related causes. Consider this: Nationally, Black infants are more than twice as likely to die as white infants and Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. According to the Center […]

African-American women are three times as likely to die from complications of childbirth with the death of Black infants double that of white infants. Research says that midwives can help decrease that number for African-American women. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka a midwife and maternal health advocate to find out just how it can […]