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Hypotrophy and FAS

Preliminary study of the prevalence of hypotrophy and fetal alcohol syndrome in Antananarivo, Madagascar By Mbolanirina L. Rakotomahefa Narison, Arthur B. A. Ratsimbazafy, Zo L. Andrianadison, Honore S. Raobijaona [...]

Monitoring Alcohol Marketing in Madagascar

European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing (EUCAM) Avalon de Bruijn, Gerard van der Waal www.eucam.info/Madagascar2013 To assess the status of alcohol marketing in [...]

Unquenchable thirst

Home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies, Africa’s thirst for beer and spirits is almost unquenchable: analysts estimate beer volumes rose around 7 per cent last [...]

New laws

On average an African drinks about 6.15 litres of pure alcohol each year, about half of what a European consumes. However, more than 25 per cent of Africans [...]

Birth defects

Even several months into pregnancy, Johannesburg resident Martha regularly drank until she passed out. She never worried about the effect until her son was born with a hole [...]