by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Jan 23, 2024 | Constituency Work
I was at King’s College NHS Trust for the official opening of their Peace Bereavement Suite, designed for bereaved families who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death. It is named in honour of a former midwife at the Trust, Peace, who sadly died in...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Jun 15, 2023 | Campaigns
On Clean Air Day, I joined Global Black Maternal Health (GBMH) for the first annual Black Child’s Clean Air Conference. We know that Black people are more likely to live in areas with higher concentrations of air pollution. Our own borough of Lambeth has one of the...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | May 15, 2023 | Campaigns, Parliamentary Work
I supported the launch of a very important joint report from two pregnancy and baby loss charities, Sands and Tommy’s entitled Saving Babies’ Lives Progress Report. This report pulls together data on the impact of pregnancy and baby loss across the UK for the first...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Apr 25, 2023 | Campaigns, Parliamentary Work
I founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Black Maternal Health because we have known about the inequalities facing Black mothers for decades and failed to address them. The colour of a mother’s skin should have no bearing on her health outcomes or her baby’s....
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Nov 2, 2022 | Parliamentary Work
In November, I secured a debate on Black Maternal Health. In 2022, Black women in the UK are over three times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth than their white counterparts. Behind the harrowing statistics on Black maternal health, there are thousands...
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