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A worthy cause - did you know that African American women receiving prenatal care at The Birth Place birthing center in 2007 had no premature or low-birth weight babies? The average baby weighed 7lbs 7ozs and was born around the 39th week of pregnancy. Nationally Black women have twice as many babies born too soon, too small and too sick to survive their first year of life as White babies. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CONTINUE THIS WORK. Read on.............
The Link Between Black Women's Health and Infant Mortality Orlando, FL January 12, 2006 The Birth Place, a unique birthing center and midwifery practice, today announced Our Black Babies Are DYING! a conference focused on the state of black women's health in Florida. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the event is being held Saturday January 14th 2006 at the Holy Trinity Reception and Conference Center (1217 Trinity Woods Lane, Maitland). The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of the infant mortality rate among black women in Florida.
The continued, dire state of Black infant mortality and poor perinatal outcomes is of grave concern to health care practitioners and providers, as well as to the public at large, said Ms. Jennie Joseph, clinical director of The Birth Place and organizer of the conference. The more women know, the more they are able to help themselves and this conference is designed with them in mind.
Gabrielle Finley | Sentinel Staff Writer | April 23, 2008
Read the original article at the Orlando Sentinel
Programs help at-risk moms-to-be, to give children a better chance.
SANFORD - Shanette Lee thought hope was around the corner.
Her life had not been easy. Brushes with the law landed her in prison for a few years.
Then a relationship in New Jersey went sour, causing Lee, 29 and three months pregnant, to head to relatives in Sanford. But things got worse, and Lee ended up at a homeless shelter, rationing the prenatal vitamins she got back in New Jersey.
Global Impact of HIV/AIDS on Women
Of the estimated 39.5 million people living with HIV in 2006, 17.7 million (45%) were women. Women are most severely affected by AIDS in places where heterosexual contact is the dominant mode of transmission. According to the WHO, most women become infected through their partner’s high-risk behavior, which they have little or no control over. Women who are financially dependent on male partners are at a disadvantage in negotiating condom use.
For more information on the global impact of HIV/AIDS on women see the AIDS Epidemic Update, December 2006
Premature births account for more than 30 percent of infant deaths, scientists say
The Associated Press
ATLANTA – Scientists now say a third of infant deaths are due to premature births — a much larger percentage than previously thought.
In the past, "preterm birth" has been the listed cause of death in fewer than 20 percent of newborn fatalities. But that number should be 34 percent or more, said researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That's because at least a dozen causes of newborn death are actually problems that go hand-in-hand with premature births, such as respiratory distress syndrome caused by underdeveloped lungs.
Bahama Village midwife delivered more than 100 babies
BY MANDY BOLENCitizen Staff
KEY WEST
The 200 block of Truman Avenueis a study in contrasts. A Hummer is parked along the curb while rusting tin roofs cover parts of the few houses not yet bought, renovated and sold. The aged Bethel AME Church endures at the entrance to the block, but in the middle, old homes are becoming new condominiums and the ceaseless thunder of power tools rattle Mary Weech's jalousies, making it difficult for the 76-year-old woman to hear her telephone ring.
To: Florida Health Care Advocates - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
From: Becky Martin, Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN),
Education & Outreach Coordinator
Re: Citizens' Health Care Working Group Community Meeting - Miami 3/9/06
The federally-funded, bi-partisan Citizens' Health Care Working Group will hold
a Community Meeting in Miami - March 9, 2006 at Wyndham Grand Bay, 2669 South
Click here for a series of pitures of Coretta Scott Kings funeral.
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Click below for an obituary to Mrs. King
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Participate in National Wear Red Day on Friday, February 3:
Wear Red to Support Women and Heart Disease Awareness
Friday, February 3, 2006, is National Wear Red Day—a day when Americans nationwide will take women's health to heart by wearing red to show their support for women's heart disease awareness. More women die of heart disease than all cancers combined, yet only 20 percent of women identify heart disease as the greatest health problem facing women today and most fail to make the connection between its risk factors and their personal risk of developing heart disease.
