Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified: on Nostr: "State and local public health authorities, which by law are responsible for ...

"State and local public health authorities, which by law are responsible for controlling the spread of infectious diseases, report delays getting medicine to pregnant people with syphilis. This emergency was predictable: There have been shortages of this drug in eight of the last 20 years.

Yet federal health authorities have not prevented the drug shortages in the past and aren’t doing much to prevent them in the future."

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-federal-government-fails-stop-syphilis-babies-pregnancy

#healthcare #pregnancy #reproductivejustice