Capricorn FM’s Nghamula Chauke spoke to DGMT’s Rahima Essop about the Maternal Support Grant Advocacy Coalition’s call for Treasury to fund support for pregnant women and their newborns. Right now, women living in poverty get no targeted state support until their baby is born, and Rahima argued that government’s plan to end stunting must start in pregnancy.
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South Africa has put fiscal backing behind the national mission to end stunting, allocating R1.6 billion over the medium term, with a focus on pregnancy
South Africa wants to put an end to child stunting and malnutrition, but experts say the fight has to start before a baby is born.
South Africa has promised to end child stunting, but a pregnant woman living in poverty still gets no targeted support from the state until her