Health Equity

How the CDC and others are failing Black women during childbirth

Abstract: Campaigns to reduce deaths related to childbirth do little to address clinicians not hearing the problems Black mothers experience.

Publication: STAT

Date Published: September 18, 2020

Author(s): Leslie Farrington

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