In the midst of this crisis, OUD among pregnant women seems to be on the rise; however, not many data exist on how many pregnant women and new mothers struggle with OUD, and what child health outcomes of these pregnancies look like. For this reason, CDC funded PHII to develop MAT-LINK, a surveillance network of clinical sites that will provide important data to public health to help answer some outstanding questions on maternal, infant and child health outcomes following treatment for OUD during pregnancy.
The video below provides some background on the MAT-LINK project, as well as some perspectives from some of the participating clinical sites. You can also learn more about this project on the MAT-LINK website.