Black Infant Health SF Program (PSA)

A quick tour of Black Infant Health facility located in San Francisco.

In California, African-American babies are nearly three times as likely to die than White infants and more than twice as likely to die than Latino infants. In 2004, the infant mortality rate for African-American infants was 12.0 deaths per 1,000 live births.

African-American infants in California are twice as likely to be born with low birth weight as compared to White infants.

The risk of having low-birth weight babies is higher for pregnant women who are poor, African-American, younger than 17 years old, who have limited access to health care and/or receive little to no prenatal care.


Support services are provided to pregnant and parenting African American women and their families at no cost in the Fillmore location:

For more information vist:
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/bih/Pages/default.aspx

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