Maternal mortality does not begin in the delivery room—and it does not end there either. In Nigeria, the intersection of hypertension and pregnancy reveals how health outcomes are shaped long before labor and long after birth. This is not a story of individual failure or cultural shortcoming. It is a systems story—about access, continuity of care, clinical decision-making, and the quiet resilience of families navigating strained health infrastructures. As part of Afro Mosaic: Impacts on the Global Black Lifespan Journey, this Series 6 installment situates maternal health within a lifelong fra...

Birth Trauma & Postpartum Mental Health in Brazil (Bahia) is part of Afro Mosaic Health Guide Magazine’s Global Black Lifespan Journey, a year-long project dedicated to showing how systems shape Black lives from birth onward. This installment focuses on one of the most overlooked moments in that journey: what happens to Black mothers after the baby arrives. Inside this presentation, readers will see how postpartum mental health is shaped not only by biology, but by work conditions, income insecurity, racial bias, legal gaps, and access to care. It connects research, policy, and lived experien...