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Family of woman who died from Covid after giving birth sues Brazilian state https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/13/brazil-covid-woman-childbirth-lawsuit #Maternalmortality #JairBolsonaro #Coronavirus #Worldnews #Americas #Brazil #Race

Maternal Mortality Continues to Decline in Kazakhstan

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/maternal-mortality-continues-to-decline-in-kazakhstan/

from Jessica Valenti:

Post-Dobbs Deaths
A new study from the Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI) found that women are twice as likely to die during pregnancy in states with abortion bans. Twice as likely.

Meanwhile, maternal mortality in pro-choice states fell 21%. One stark comparison from the study: Texas’ maternal mortality rate was 155% higher than California’s.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/women-are-twice-as-likely-to-die?r=1nlk19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#abortion #pregnancy #maternalmortality #womenshealth

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on #DrugUse, #MaternalMortality, #ClimateChange and More
The survival of that data is now in doubt, as a result of the #DOGE's comprehensive assault on the federal bureaucracy. By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality

U.S. maternal mortality rate increased 27% over five years, NIH study finds
Amid government cuts, findings show the need to ‘increase investment,’ author says

A new U.S. government paper documenting an increase in maternal mortality from 2018 to 2022 does not hedge in its conclusion, calling the issue “an urgent public health priority.” That it was published amid massive job and funding cuts at federal health agencies charged with reducing these deaths has not escaped notice.

#NIH #maternalmortality #healthfunding

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/09/maternal-mortality-increases-as-research-funding-cut-urgent-public-health-priority/

Africa: African Region's Maternal and Newborn Mortality Declining, but Progress Still Slow: [WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville -- The African region has made progress in lowering maternal mortality since 2000 but needs a 12-fold increase in the annual reduction rate to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SGD) target of fewer than 70 deaths per 100 000 live births by 2030, new estimates by… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TK19rk #MaternalHealth #NewbornCare #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #MaternalMortality #HealthForAll

#MaternalMortality

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:urqvt6enyjxt6lhjm2hlezjj/post/3lludjsuodk2l

Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.

In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #AbortionIsHealthcare #law

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.
 Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning #MaternalMortality #BirthControl #law #USpol

#Trump admin to cut funds to #PlannedParenthood
 The #nonprofit said that 9 of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as #TitleX, which has supported #healthcare services for the #poor since 1970.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #BirthControl #AbortionIsHealthcare #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/

Black Mothers Matter: Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis in America https://shinemycrown.com/black-mothers-matter-addressing-the-maternal-health-crisis-in-america/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BlackMothersMatter #MaternalHealth #MaternalMortality #HealthcareForAll #ReproductiveJustice

"The new analysis comes as #Texas legislators consider amending the #abortionban in the wake of ProPublica’s previous reporting, and as doctors, federal lawmakers and the state’s largest newspaper have urged Texas officials to review pregnancy-related deaths from the first full years after the ban was enacted; the state #maternalmortality review committee has, thus far, opted not to examine the death data for 2022 and 2023."

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis

‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-medical-research-funding-maternal-mortality #Trumpadministration #Maternalmortality #USdomesticpolicy #Women'shealth #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Pregnancy #Society #Health #USnews #Women

‘I’ve seen women suffer’: Malawi’s religious leaders fight for legal abortions https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/09/women-malawi-religious-leaders-legal-abortion-ban-maternal-mortality-christian-muslim #Women'srightsandgenderequality #Reproductiverights #Globaldevelopment #Maternalmortality #Maternalhealth #Women'shealth #Globalhealth #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #Abortion #Religion #Society #Malawi #Africa #Health #Women #Women

MHC Secures $600,000 to Address Black Maternal Mortality

The MHC, a strategic project with the task of decreasing Black maternal mortality in New York City, has been granted $600,000 in pilot funds by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Visit: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/funding-news/mhc-secures-600000-to-address-black-maternal-mortality/

#BlackMaternalHealth #MaternalMortality #BlackWomenMatte #MaternalCare