A South African Mother and Child are Put to the Test

AllAfrica follows the journey of Nomsa*,a mother living with Aids from a township in Cape Town, and the anguish of waiting to find out whether her baby girl is free from the disease.
  • South Africa:  Mother and Baby Put to the Test

    allAfrica, 1 November 2012

    In July, AllAfrica.com reported on a clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, that has defied the country's distressing trend over the past decade of maternal mortality rates rising… Read more »

Nomsa and her baby.

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Dr Vivian Cox, Médecins Sans Frontières Deputy Medical Field Co-ordinator in Khayelitsha.

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