‘Count the Kicks’ stillbirth-prevention campaign launches in Alabama during pandemic
By Samille Jackson
May 5, 2021
By partnering with the Count the Kicks campaign, the Alabama Department of Health hopes to prevent stillbirths among the state s women. One out of every 113 pregnancies in Alabama ends in stillbirth, according to the Alabama Center for Health Statistics. (Getty Images)
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is partnering with Count the Kicks, an evidence-based stillbirth prevention public health campaign, to educate and empower expectant parents in Alabama about the importance of tracking fetal movement in the third trimester of pregnancy. One out of every 113 pregnancies in Alabama ends in stillbirth, according to the Alabama Center for Health Statistics.
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Mitch Williams, 85, one of the first patients to be seen at the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Miss. poses inside of the center’s museum, March 3, 2021.
In the 1960s, health care for Black residents in rural Mississippi was practically non-existent. While some hospitals served Black patients, they struggled to stay afloat; most options were segregated. During the height of the civil rights movement, young Black doctors decided to launch a movement of their own.
“Mississippi was third-world and was so bad and so separated. The community health center movement was the conduit for physicians all over this country who believed that all people have a right to health care,” said Dr. Robert Smith.
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Jefferson County Deputy Health Officer Dr. David Hicks: ‘We’ve got to keep momentum going’
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Back then, Carson was a nationally renowned neurosurgeon in Baltimore who was most heralded for leading a historic 70-member surgical team that successfully separated infant twins conjoined at the head in 1987.
David Hicks wanted to do that. He was nine years old.
When other children asked for video games for their birthday, the kid growing up in a crowded, multi-generational home in Willingboro, New Jersey a mostly Black township just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia with an intriguing racial history pleaded for a chemistry set.
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