Black Pregnancy Health Initiative

Black birthing people are also more likely to experience life-threatening conditions like preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, and blood clots, as well as increased incidence of other pregnancy-related complications like preterm birth and low birth weight.

Solving the Black Maternal Health Crisis | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health (jhu.edu)

The Health Consumer Alliance Supports the Black Birthing Community!

With the help of our dedicated partners statewide the HCA supports California's Black birthing community with educational materials and advocacy support to ensure all birthing persons have access to coverage and needed services throughout all phases of their birthing journey.

In the United States mothers and birthing people are dying at the highest rate in the developed world – and the rate is rising. For as dire as the situation is for all women and birthing people, the crisis is most severe for Black women and birthing people, who are 3-4 times more likely to die from pregnancy related causes than their white counterparts across all income and education levels.

Many of these deaths and illnesses are preventable.

The U.S. could avoid about 40% of maternal deaths if all birthing people—regardless of age, race, and zip code—had access to quality health care.

Health Consumer Alliance's Black Pregnancy Health initiative seeks to support Black birthing individuals overcome barriers to obtaining coverage and needed services.

 
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