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Key data points that were discussed during the event included issues regarding primary care physicians, infant deaths, obesity, smoking in both adults and youth and suicide rates ... African-American infants are particularly more at risk to die before reaching their first birthday, being three times more likely than other demographics, he said....

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Medicaid expansion improves health of moms and babies, study shows

Sacramento Bee 24 May 2019

"Infant mortality has declined much more dramatically in states that expanded Medicaid and those declines were actually greater among African American infants, something we haven't seen with any other kind of an intervention." ... Massachusetts has the nation's lowest infant mortality rate at 3.7 in 100,000 babies....

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New report shows Florida lags in health coverage for pregnant women

Tampa Bay Times 22 May 2019

The report found that Medicaid expansion played a role in reducing rates of maternal death, decreasing infant mortality rates and improving birth outcomes in those specific states ... African-American women are three times ... The decline was the greatest among African-American infants....

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Gillibrand rolls out 'Family Bill of Rights' to ease parents' financial burdens

The Hill 22 May 2019

The legislation would also address recent calls from black congresswomen to�tackle African American infant mortality and maternity deaths, and would encourage hospitals to adopt standardized best practices for maternity care while providing more federal resources for OB/GYN care, especially in rural areas where shortages exist....

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AFPNC donates to mothers of premature, sick babies on Mother’s Day

Joy Online 20 May 2019

The African Foundation for Premature Babies and Neonatal Care (AFPNC) has ... African Foundation for Premature Babies & Neonatal Care (AFPNC) is the first pan-African organization and network to represent the interest of preterm and newborn infants and their families in Africa....

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America’s Reproductive Slaves

Truth Dig 20 May 2019

African Americans have 2.5 times the infant mortality rate of non-Hispanic whites. African American infants have over twice the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) mortality rate as non-Hispanic whites ... Walter Scott, an African American father, had been arrested and jailed, ......

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The abortion debate is not about the sanctity of life — it’s about corporate capitalism

Alternet 20 May 2019

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How doulas are helping one city lower its high rate of black infant deaths

Herald Mail 15 May 2019

Johnson and several peers whom she calls her doula sisters serve a community with some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. low-income African American women in Milwaukee ... infant mortality rate of 4.95 for white babies and 11.1 for African American babies.Helping moms feel comfortable....

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Zoo celebrates birth of endangered baby gorilla

Belfast Telegraph 15 May 2019

The infant swells the zoo’s gorilla troop to eight, including Rollie, Nayembi and silverback Kwan, as well ... “It’s an exciting time to visit Regenstein Centre for African Apes where you can see different life stages of the gorillas from newborn infant to full-grown silverback.”....

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LOOK: 11 South Africans who could fill the position of UCT chancellor

Independent online (SA) 15 May 2019

Here are 11 South Africans that we think meet the requirements. ... Kani has been intimately involved, in one capacity or another, in the long cycle of Fugard plays which changed the face of South African theatre ... Itumeleng English/African News Agency (ANA) Archives ... In 2002, he became the first South African to travel to space as a space tourist....

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New program targets early childhood

Rocky Mount Telegram 13 May 2019

The health goals include improving the infant mortality rate, especially for African-American babies, and providing preventative health services for children and their families through Medicaid expansion ... “Currently, African-American births face 2.5 times the infant mortality rate as white births in this state,” Planchard said ... .......

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Loss of grant shuts program to cut Clark County infant mortality

Las Vegas Review-Journal 11 May 2019

The Southern Nevada Health District has ended a maternal-child health program aimed at reducing deaths among African-American infants in Clark County ... Additionally, African-Americans have the highest rates of infant mortality and pre-term birth in Clark County, Healthy Start project director Margarita DeSantos said....

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Commissioners seek data on teacher pay supplements

Reflector 10 May 2019

Infant mortality prevention is going to be a top priority for the department because the county’s infant mortality rate remains higher than the state average ... The infant mortality rate among African-Americans remains two to three times higher than whites, Hattem said, even though that rate has dropped in recent years....