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There is no specific policy guiding the prevention and management of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa.
The UK is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to preventing harm caused by drinking during pregnancy.
Foetal alcohol syndrome disorder is a much under-recognised and unsupported condition in the UK.
Rosie Anne Fulton, a young Northern Territory Indigenous woman with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, highlights how the system is failing.
Around 40% of Australian women drink alcohol while pregnant, despite medical guidelines recommending they don’t.
A young girl born with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is not entitled to criminal injuries compensation from her mother drinking excessively while pregnant, the Court of Appeal has decided. It was alleged…
A story of a woman who drank a half-bottle of vodka and eight cans of strong lager daily during pregnancy and gave birth to a disabled child that ended up in foster care, was certain to stir up emotion…
There’s a legal requirement in Australia for all packaged alcohol to show the alcohol content of the beverage and the number of standard drinks. But there’s no need for the label to bear any information…
The debate about alcohol’s harms is seemingly endless: the role of alcohol in violence, unplanned sex, injury and motor vehicle accidents, the teen binge-drinking epidemic, the risks of cancer and liver…
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Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Professor and Group Leader, Reproductive Epidemiology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Reader in Law, Cardiff University
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Professor of Criminology, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Faculty of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate in Epidemiology and Alcohol-Related Outcomes, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Law, Bournemouth University
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Reader in Interdisciplinary Practice and Research with Famililies, Birmingham City University
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Professor of Women's Public Health, Institute of Clinical and Applied Health Research, University of Hull
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Western Cape
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Emertus Professor of Alcohol Studies, University of the West of England
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Edinburgh
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