{"id":18325,"date":"2025-05-28T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/?p=18325"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:44:43","slug":"healthy-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmediacreative.co.za\/afrocentric\/archives\/18325","title":{"rendered":"Healthy beginnings\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18325\" class=\"elementor elementor-18325\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6722181 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6722181\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25d8c85 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"25d8c85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) this year is on Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures, with World Health Day on 7 April shining a light on healthy pregnancies and births.  <\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28831b6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"28831b6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The WHO initiative highlights that nearly 300 000 women across the world die every year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth, while over two million babies don\u2019t survive their first month. 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