It’s a scary day for moms, right?” French Gates said. Tragically, those solutions aren’t reaching families in the communities where mothers and kids need them most,” said Bill Gates and French Gates in the report’s introduction. Gates and French Gates also noted the increasing rates of maternal deaths in the U.S. and United Kingdom and the racial disparities in those deaths. French Gates spoke with outrage about the harrowing experience tennis star Serena Williams described after giving birth to her first daughter and suffering multiple complications, which endangered her life. It was almost like a slap in the face,” said French Gates.

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Persons: — Melinda French Gates, Gates, Melinda Gates, Jennifer, Leila — Jennifer's, —, “, Rasa Izadnegahdar, ”, “ It’s, Bill Gates, French Gates, Mark Suzman, recommit, Suzman, Tom Kenyon, they’re, Izadnegahdar, there’s, ’ ”, Black, Serena Williams, Tori Bowie, aren’t, we’ve Organizations: Melinda Gates Foundation, Associated Press, Sustainable, United Nations, Child Health, World Health Organization, General Assembly, Gates Foundation, American Medical Association, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: U.S, French, Ukraine, Saharan Africa, South Asia, United Kingdom