How the US medical community fails Black mothers

Title:: How the US medical community fails Black mothers
Speaker:: Wanda Irving
Description:: In the US, Black women are nearly 300 percent more likely to die as a result of childbirth than white women. Sharing appalling statistics on maternal mortality as well as her own tragic story of loss, Wanda Irving explains how racism and bias in health care minimizes and dismisses Black women's pain -- and makes a personal plea for leaders in the medical community to take steps toward reform.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 15:07

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