High rates of pregnancy-related deaths among women of African descent in North and South America are likely due largely to racism - UNFPA
However, Black women in the United States fare better than non-Black women in other countries, the researchers said.
Higher income and education were not protective. Maternal deaths among US African-American college graduates were 5.2 times higher than among white college graduates and 1.6 times higher than among white women with less than a high school diploma, the researchers found. Maternal health policies rarely measure racial differences in outcomes, said Patricia Da Silva, programme adviser for UNFPA's Initiative for People of African Descent. Governments must ensure data is collected and analysed in ways that allow for targeted policies that can shrink the gaps in quality of care, she said.
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