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0309/2022 - Racismo antinegro e morte materna por COVID-19: o que vimos na Pandemia?

Author:

• Emanuelle F. Góes - Góes, E.F. - <emanuelle.goes@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9288-6723

Co-author(s):

• Andrêa J.F. Ferreira - Ferreira, A.J.F. - <ajf426@drexel.edu>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-3624
• Dandara Ramos - Ramos, D. - <dandara.ramos@ufba.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-0456


Abstract:

Anti-Black Racism runs through the lives of black and brown/mixed (pardas) women, compromising sexual and reproductive health. Obstetric racism during pregnancy, prenatal care, childbirth, abortion, and puerperium affects these women by exposing them to harmful and often lethal maternal outcomes. This study aims to present racism and its manifestations in maternal death by COVID-19. This study included dataCOVID-19 notifications among pregnant and postpartum women recorded in the severe acute respiratory syndrome database (2021 and 2022). Information on race/color, age, region, clinical signs and symptoms, ICU, and deaths were collected. The results indicate how racism affects black and brown pregnant women and puerperal, who have higher lethality due to COVID-19 than white women (a difference that reaches 14.02%), particularly in the puerperium. Black and brown/mixed pregnant women are the ones who least accessed ICU. After adjustments, the chance of maternal death in the puerperium for black women was 62% higher compared to white women (OR=1.62; 95%CI:1.01-2.63). Racism and its manifestations (dis)organize the reproductive trajectories of black and brown/mixed women, and their interaction with sexism, contribute to harmful and lethal maternal outcomes by COVID-19.

Keywords:

Racism; Obstetric Racism; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Maternal mortality; COVID-19

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Góes, E.F., Ferreira, A.J.F., Ramos, D.. Racismo antinegro e morte materna por COVID-19: o que vimos na Pandemia?. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2022/Oct). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/racismo-antinegro-e-morte-materna-por-covid19-o-que-vimos-na-pandemia/18565?id=18565



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