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Race and reproductive health

In the United States, there are reproductive health disparities between white and minority women. Compared to white women, the rate of HIV infection is disproportionately high in Black and Hispanic women. These groups account for 75% of infection among women. There is also a gap in contraceptive use between white and Black women. These disparities are partly due to greater distrust of the medical community among Black and Hispanic women as well as structural racism and access barriers. Increasing access to health care is vitally important to improving health outcomes among minority women. Comprehensive gynecological care can help reduce the rates of HIV in minority women and increase contraceptive use. The lack of reproductive health is a contributing factor in higher rates of maternal mortality in the United States among minority women. Black and Indigenous women are 3.3 and 2.5 times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.