The rate of women in Arizona who died during or after pregnancy nearly tripled from 1999 to 2019, with the most dramatic increases among the state’s minority populations: Native American mothers died at more than triple the rate of their white counterparts in 2019, while Black maternal deaths occurred at a rate almost five times that of white mothers.
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