Black women saw their maternal mortality rate increase from 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births to 50.3 over one year, while every other racial group experienced declines. "We know that Black ...

The CDC reports a significant decline in maternal mortality though a slight increase for African American women, and media focus on the latter.

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.

Black women in the U.S. face the highest maternal mortality rates, with D.C. experiencing a severe crisis with 90% of ...

Black women in the United States continued to face the highest maternal mortality rates, dying at a rate more than three ...

India has made huge progress in improving maternal mortality rate (MMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) and is well on track ...

Erin Davis/Axios Visuals The mortality rate for Black mothers in the U.S. has not improved, per data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why it matters: The pregnancy ...

In 2023, Black women in the U.S. faced a maternal death rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women, despite an overall ...

While mortality in children declines globally, Ireland has seen no significant decline in mortality rates of older children ...

A recent report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Black women were the only group who had an increase in maternal mortality between 2022 and 2023, and the latest rate ...

Over the past 30 years, the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in India has fallen by 83% — a far greater reduction than the global average of 42%. Similarly, India’s Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR ...

Press Release - Tanzania has reduced maternal mortality by 80% in a seven-year period, from 556 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2016 to 104 per 100,000 in 2022. The success is attributable to ...