AvMA Live Webinar: Disparities in Black Maternal Care with Five X More, Tuesday 11th November 2025 – Save the Date!

We are delighted to be joined by Clo Abe, Co-Founder of Five X More for a live webinar on Tuesday 11th November 2025 @ 10:30am discussing Black Maternal Care.

Over the hour Clo will discuss:

• MBRRACE Reports
• Issues/Barriers for Black Women in Maternity
• The power of advocacy
• Key observations from The Black Maternity Experience Report

Bio:

Clo Abe is co-founder of Five X More, an organisation founded in 2019 and named in relation to the findings from the MBRRACE studies that Black women were five times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than white women (the current stats show Black women are still four times more likely to die).

She has worked in different hospitals in London on the maternity unit.

Clo was an Expert by experience for NHSE/I working on The Ockenden report to develop the Maternity and Neonatal Independent Senior Advocate role and founded Prosperitys a maternal well-being social enterprise which supports Black Ethnic Minority parents mental health  focuses on early intervention, perinatal mental health awareness and social isolation.

For more information visit: https://fivexmore.org/

Bookings will open at the end of the summer, for now please save the date!