The Yellowhammer Fund and other nonprofits are launching the Alabama Birth Equity Initiative, with the goal of improving infant and maternal outcomes in Alabama. Alabama’s infant mortality rate has been higher than the nation’s for decades. (Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images)
A group of Alabama nonprofits and women’s health advocates Tuesday are planning to launch a program to improve maternal and infant mortality rates.
The Alabama Birth Equity initiative is led by the Yellowhammer Fund and joined by Margins: Women Helping Black Women, Oasis Women’s Health, and Alabama Birth Center. Jenice Fountain, executive director of the Yellowhammer Fund, said the initiative will help midwives in Alabama pay for their training, which usually costs $4,000-8,000 per semester, and transportation to clinics…