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    Leaving a legacy in child health

    Apr 10, 2021 2 minutes
    TANYA WATERWORTH tanya.waterworth@inl.co.za
    SHELLEY KJONSTAD
    African News Agency (ANA)

    RETIRED academic and activist, Professor Jerry Coovadia, 80, is probably most well known for his groundbreaking research in HIV-Aids transmission from mother to child.

    But his textbook is the book many paediatricians, doctors and medical students across the country still turn to when it comes to children's disease and illness – and this week saw the latest and 7th edition

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