Soaring rates of FASD in Eastern Cape's Nelson Mandela Bay attributed to high alcohol consumption among pregnant women. Bibi-Aisha of Al Jazeera reports that while the children display typical facial features of a child with FASD their mothers deny that they drank alcohol during pregnancy for fear they would be shamed, blamed, and stigmatised.
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