The Office of Minority Health canceled 16 grants — more than half of what it was funding — and told organizations working on maternal and infant health that their work no longer advances the office's priorities, which have been redirected toward infertility and exercise. One of the canceled programs sends nurses into homes in the days after a birth to check on mothers and newborns. Another worked to bring down infant and maternal deaths among Black families in the Arkansas Delta. That is the work that catches a hemorrhage or a blood pressure spike while there is still time to do something about it, in exactly the places where the nearest hospital is furthest away. A country with maternal mortality this high does not have programs to spare. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to restore this funding and to protect maternal and infant health programs from being switched off whenever an office rewrites its priority list.
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The Office of Minority Health canceled 16 grants — more than half of what it was funding — and told organizations working on maternal and infant health that their work no longer advances the office's priorities, which have been redirected toward infertility and exercise. One of the canceled programs sends nurses into homes in the days after a birth to check on mothers and newborns. Another worked to bring down infant and maternal deaths among Black families in the Arkansas Delta. That is the work that catches a hemorrhage or a blood pressure spike while there is still time to do something about it, in exactly the places where the nearest hospital is furthest away. A country with maternal mortality this high does not have programs to spare. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to restore this funding and to protect maternal and infant health programs from being switched off whenever an office rewrites its priority list.
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