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South Africa

South Africa
Physicians

Also known as: Heather J Zar

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Paediatrics is about creating better futures.

Children suffering from diseases of poverty.

This is where children are dying from RSV.

Now this is very important because of the new vaccines, which we really need to access for our children.

The study will hopefully provide valuable information to identify new interventions for improving child health.

More funding and capacity development are needed to strengthen child health programmes.

Child health has been worsening over the past 20 years in South Africa.

When Mandela was freed, there was so much euphoria and so much hope for the future.

Conventional practice was that TB was difficult to confirm in children.

We even looked at things like parenting style.

Some of their findings were predictable.

There was a misconception that asthma is rare in African children.

We looked at child and maternal nutrition, at allergies.

The implementation of findings into practice and public health including policy and guidelines.

We looked at the home environment, we visited the homes before the children were born, and after.

We felt that this is where we could make a contribution.

We looked at growth, at neurodevelopment, and now as the children are getting older, we are starting to look at non-communicable diseases like cardiometabolic disease and asthma.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Heather Zar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.