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South Africa: Social Development to Offer Maternal Support |
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www.sanews.gov.za |
| Source Date: |
Thursday, June 26, 2014 |
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ICT for MDGs
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South Africa |
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Jun 26, 2014 |
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The first 1000 days from the start of a woman’s pregnancy until her child’s second birthday offer a unique window of opportunity to shape healthier and more prosperous futures.
The right nutrition during this 1 000 day window can have an enormous impact on a child’s ability to grow, learn, and rise out of poverty.
It can also have a profound effect on the long-term health, stability, and development of entire communities and nations.
She said the department will also include universalising access to Early Childhood Development Services for up to four years.
“These services will complement the current extensive roll-out of the Child Support Grant (CSG), which also contributes to improved mother and child well-being,” Minister Dlamini said.
She however, highlighted that one of the challenges facing the department is the stigmatisation of poor women with children on social assistance programmes through unproven stories.
“Our evidence clearly indicates women do not get children to access social assistance benefits,” the minister reiterated.
She stressed the need to look at improving access through ensuring that all designated facilities are operational and reintroduces values clarification and social context training for health sector workers.
“In terms of a comprehensive reproductive rights service, we also have to invest more to improve access to modern means of contraception and sexuality education.
“The Department of Health has just rolled out a new dual contraception programme, a cervical cancer vaccination programme, and a school health programme,” she said.
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South Africa: Social Development to Offer Maternal Support In line with a broader approach to reproductive justice the Department of Social Development is to provide maternal support for expectant mothers Addressing the Reproductive Health Rights Conference on Tuesday Minister Bathabile Dlamini said the support formed part of the international 1000 days campaign The campaign seeks to contribute to the reduction of maternal and child mortalities through improving access to nutrition for expectant mothers and new-born children
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