内容摘要：The goals don’t have a timeline, and various county leaders are tasked with “championing” each step. Jackson said she’s seeing high energy from employees to begin implementing the action plan, adding: “It’s like the conditions are right for the culture to shift.”

The goals don’t have a timeline, and various county leaders are tasked with “championing” each step. Jackson said she’s seeing high energy from employees to begin implementing the action plan, adding: “It’s like the conditions are right for the culture to shift.”

Health officials like Hernández say they’re concerned in particular for vulnerable populations including Indigenous groups, many of whom have fewer resources to cope.Vega, the single mother who got measles, said her job at the cheese factory was once a blessing, providing health insurance and steady pay.

Raramuri Indigenous woman Gloria Vega, right, watches a neighbor wash clothes outside her home in Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Silva Rey)Raramuri Indigenous woman Gloria Vega, right, watches a neighbor wash clothes outside her home in Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Silva Rey)But the forced leave and docked pay left her reeling. She said she’s living paycheck to paycheck and wonders how she’ll pay the bills — her daughter’s school supplies, lunches, tennis shoes.

“I have a daughter to keep afloat,” she said. “It’s not like I have the option to wait and pay for things, for food.”Associated Press videojournalist Martín Silva Rey contributed to this report from Cuauhtemoc, Mexico.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — At the site of

a century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving “It was a full-circle moment for the midwife and patient, who first met when Mixon was an uninsured teenager seeking prenatal care halfway through her pregnancy with the little boy. Joseph has been on a decades-long mission to usher patients like Mixon safely into parenthood through a nonprofit that relies on best practices she learned in Europe, a place that experts say

“I consider maternal health to be in a state of emergency here,” said Joseph, a British immigrant. “It’s more than frustrating. It’s criminal.”The Biden administration,

in this election year, acknowledges the U.S. has one of the highest rates of any wealthy nation — hovering around 20 per 100,000 live births overall and 50 for Black moms, according to the World Health Organization and U.S. health officials. Several European countries have rates in the single digits.shows the vast majority of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. Public health experts