Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

For Maternal Health and Covid-19, a Racial Divide

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Expand U.S. Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL), co-founder and co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus, speaking at the Black Maternal Health Caucus Stakeholder Summit at the Capitol in Washington, DC on July 11, 2019. © 2020 Sipa USA via AP (Photo by Michael Brochstein) In the week and a half leading up to my daughter’s birth last July, I saw an obstetrician several times, then was hospitalized to monitor my high blood pressure. I was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia, a condition that can lead to serious, and sometimes fatal, complications during pregnancy, and was induced six…

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