Valuing Black Women’s and Infants’ Lives in the US

Expand The maternity ward is show at the newly constructed Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center hospital in San Diego, California , U.S., April 17, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Around the world every single day 800 women and girls die from preventable causes during and after pregnancy. Human Rights Watch has documented some of the root causes of these deaths – lack of accountability of health professionals to poor quality care to considerable cost barriers to care. In many countries, this number is dropping. But in the United States – one of the world’s richest countries – it’s rising. Many…

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