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Analysis: Unlike the global trend, South Africa’s children are too short and too fat

By Chantell Witten and Salome Kruger, November 19, 2020

A Lancet article reporting on children’s height and weight changes over the past thirty years makes for grim reading when it comes to South Africa. Two of the country’s top child nutrition experts unpack what this landmark study means and what we can do to improve the situation.

Analysis: Unlike the global trend, South Africa’s children are too short and too fat

When kids go hungry: A frontline perspective on treating child malnutrition

By Kathryn Cleary, October 29, 2020

Posted in: Child health, Eastern Cape, Edition 13: Eastern Cape Health, Latest, Provinces, Western Cape

After more than 16 years at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, Shihaam Cader and her team have helped to treat and rehabilitate thousands of malnourished children. Kathryn Cleary chatted to Cader for the first part of a six-part special series on child hunger in South Africa.

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