FASD Awareness: ‘Everyone Plays a Part’ in Protecting Unborn Babies
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The Department of Health has intensified the training of personnel in the health, social, educational and judicial fields to optimize the prevention, early diagnosis and support of people with disabilities resulting from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). On the occasion of World FASD Prevention Day, which is commemorated on 9 […] The entry Health reinforces the training of professionals to improve the care of people with disabilities due …
Preventing FASD Is Possible and a Human Rights Priority but Big Alcohol Stands in the Way of Governments Protecting Children
Children have a right to be protected from predictable and preventable harms. This is a value people hold in common across every culture and every country, and it is a promise every society makes to its youngest members. How well we keep that promise is one of the truest measures of whether our governments deliver for the people they serve. The massive, extensive, and still under-recognised burden of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder reveals how …
FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) is the most common congenital disability in the world. In Essen, many people are looking for help.
FASD awareness: ‘Everyone plays a part’ in protecting unborn babies
South Africa is marking International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day today, 9 September, with a reminder that preventing alcohol exposure during pregnancy is not the responsibility of mothers alone — it is a community responsibility. This year’s theme, “Everyone Plays a Part: It Takes a Community”, highlights the role families, healthcare workers, communities […]
Even a sip of alcohol can have life-long consequences for the unborn child. FASD is one of the most common congenital diseases. It would be completely avoidable.
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