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News Articles: maternal and child health

For years, the United States has been considered one of the unsafest places to give birth among developed nations. That remains especially true for Black women during the height of the COVID pandemic. Photo by Getty Images

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  • Health

New initiatives receive millions in federal funds to fight Georgia's maternal health crisis

The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Black Maternal Health Caucus launched a year-long Enhancing Maternal Health Initiative to address maternal mortality and maternal health disparities in partnership with mothers, grantees, community organizations, and state and local health officials.

May 23, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Kaniya Pierre Louis (left) is a third-year medical student shadowing Dr. Zita Magloire for the day. Pierre Louis says she appreciates Magloire as a role model and an example of excellence.

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  • Health Care

Can family doctors deliver rural America from its maternal health crisis?

More than half of American counties don't have an obstetrician. Family physicians, working in teams with proper support, could be the answer to the crisis in rural obstetric care.

December 18, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Jane Tribble
When Victoria Ferrell Ortiz had her daughter in 2017, she was covered by a limited form of Medicaid in Texas — which ended just two months after she gave birth. Losing insurance so soon was stressful. She supports a push for Texas to extend Medicaid coverage for a full year after childbirth.

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  • Health

In Texas, Medicaid ends soon after childbirth. Will lawmakers allow more time?

In Texas, many uninsured people can access Medicaid if they get pregnant. But 2 months after giving birth, the coverage ends. Advocates say new moms need a full year, to improve maternal health.

March 05, 2023
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By:
  • Elena Rivera
Toni Ivey holds her one-year-old baby, Finn, at Liberty Regional Medical Center in Hinesville, Ga. Ivey was admitted to the hospital with high-blood pressure and a risk of cardiac complications at one week postpartum.

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  • Health

Web-based apps will offer a simple way for doctors to provide postpartum care for Georgia moms

By remotely monitoring and educating new moms after they go home, providers are catching potentially fatal conditions, like heart failure and stroke.

December 12, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Dejerica and Derick Tinsley stand in the baby nursery at their home in Marietta, Ga., on Oct. 9, 2022. The Tinsley's worked with doula Chanel Stryker-Boykin throughout Dejerica's pregnancy.

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  • Health

Doulas in Georgia work to support better, safer births — one family at a time

In Georgia, Black mothers die three times more often than their white counterparts. Making more birth support available could improve outcomes.

November 16, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas

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  • National

States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows

Many of the states that are moving to ban abortion tend to have less access to health care, worse maternal and infant health care outcomes and weaker social supports for children and families.

August 18, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Mother and baby

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  • Health

Kemp OKs expanded Medicaid coverage for new moms, rejects coverage for HIV

The extension of postpartum Medicaid coverage will enable low-income moms to keep their health care coverage for a full year, ensuring they have insurance during a vulnerable time for their health.

May 17, 2022
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
A scene from <em>Midwives</em>: A baby whose face is adorned with thanaka — a kind of sunscreen made from wood bark.

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  • Arts & Life

Sundance prize goes to 'Midwives' — about a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice

The documentary follows a Buddhist and a Muslim — who don't always get along — as they provide health care to Muslim women and children despite growing political and religious tensions in Myanmar.

January 28, 2022
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib

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