How the Birthing Project can be utilized to provide social supports for women of color
By Ryan Coleman, 4th Year Medical Student Racial disparities have an enormous impact on maternal and infant health outcomes. The Maternal Mortality rate in the United States is almost triple the rate in comparable countries across the world. When you break down the data even further, African American women experience a mortality rate almost four times that of white women here in the United States. Infant mortality rates and teen birth rates in African American families are tw