But experts who study the issue say that shouldn’t overshadow the fundamental work of understanding why maternal mortality deaths are happening and how they can be prevented. “We can’t let ...

The maternal mortality rate rose to 19 deaths per 100,000 in December 2024, an increase from 18.6 the year before. Maternal deaths spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, bumping the nation’s ...

That’s up from 669 deaths in 2023, but down from 2022 and 2021, when it was the highest level in more than 50 years.The maternal mortality rate rose to 19 deaths per 100,000 live births ...

The state’s maternal mortality rate peaked at 44 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021. This was higher than the United States’ 32.9 deaths that year. In October 2022, the U.S. Government ...

Speaking at the 2025 Celebrating Womanhood Art Gala, organized by NHW ... Development Goal of reducing the global maternal mortality rate to below 70 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030 ...

as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial gaps widened, according to federal health data released Wednesday. In 2021 and 2022, the maternal death rate for Black women ...

California’s surgeon general unveiled a new initiative Tuesday aimed at reducing maternal mortality, setting a goal of halving the statewide rate of deaths related to pregnancy and birth by ...