Investing in the health and wellbeing of the children of South Africa is an investment in the future development of our country. South Africa still has a relatively youthful population with a third of the population under 15 years of age3, although we are in the midst of demographic transition. The health of these  children needs to be a priority, a principle adopted through the ratification of the1990 United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child.

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