WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Cory Booker, D-NJ, recently reintroduced bipartisan legislation to provide sustained funding for a maternal care and research program.

The NIH IMPROVE Act would provide $73.4 million annually for the next seven years for the National Institutes of Health’s IMPROVE Initiative that supports research to reduce the maternal mortality rate and improve outcomes for women in all stages of pregnancy.

“This bipartisan legislation will support targeted funding for critical research to improve health outcomes for women throughout their pregnancy journey,” Britt said in a statement. “I’m committed to ensuring the NIH remains the gold standard of research and provides solutions to improve health outcomes for women before, during, and after pregnancy.

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