Black Maternal Health Week 2025: Community-Led Care Model Targets Racial Disparities

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This Black Maternal Health Week, the South Side Healthy Community Organization (SSHCO) is reaffirming a truth too often ignored: that Black women in the United States are dying at alarming rates from preventable pregnancy-related complications—and that it doesn’t have to be this way.
Across the country, Black women are more than three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as White women, according to the CDC. In 2023, the maternal mortality ra