The study finds three quarters of the mothers known to social services died between six weeks and the year after pregnancy and most deaths were due to suicide (20%), other psychiatric causes including drug related deaths (30%), and homicide (5%).
The WesternRegionalHealth Directorate has reactivated its Public Health Emergency Response Team in a renewed effort to contain the spread of Mpox, even as the region grapples with a troubling surge in maternal deaths ... .
And it comes at a time when Tennessee continues to see one of the highest maternal death rates in the country, especially for Black women... Tennessee consistently ranks among the worst in the nation for maternal deaths.
Government leaders, religious institutions, civil society, international partners and communities were mobilised to treat every maternal death as a collective failure ... Across sub-Saharan Africa, maternal deaths remain common.
MONTGOMERY — Leaders at the Alabama Medicaid Agency are hopeful the state’s infant and maternal mortality rates, which are among the highest in the nation, will start to see improvements after several new initiatives begin rolling out this year ... .
DAVAO CITY — In a move to highlight persistent threats to maternal health, the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) has identified hypertension in pregnancy and postpartum hemorrhage as the leading causes of maternal deaths in the Davao Region.