Bronx Healthy Start Community Action Network Co-Director Alma Idehen talks about the issue and the organization’s upcoming initiatives to combat infant mortality.
New York City’s infant mortality rate, or the number of deaths of children under one for every 1,000 live births, increased 7.7 percent from 3.9 in 2018 to 4.2 in 2019, according to the today! Listen to ‘Writing Black’ with Maiysha Kai.
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