"I get hungry all the time": experiences of poverty and pregnancy in an urban healthcare setting in South Africa.

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Published in Global Health on August 25, 2015

Authors

Fiona Scorgie1,2, Duane Blaauw3, Tessa Dooms4, Ashraf Coovadia5, Vivian Black6, Matthew Chersich7,8

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Health Policy/MRC Health Policy Research Group, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. fscorgie@wrhi.ac.za.
2: Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute (WRHI), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. fscorgie@wrhi.ac.za.
3: Centre for Health Policy/MRC Health Policy Research Group, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Duane.Blaauw@wits.ac.za.
4: Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. tessagd@yahoo.com.
5: Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Ashraf.Coovadia@wits.ac.za.
6: Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute (WRHI), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. vblack@wrhi.ac.za.
7: Centre for Health Policy/MRC Health Policy Research Group, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Matthew.Chersich@wits.ac.za.
8: Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute (WRHI), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Matthew.Chersich@wits.ac.za.

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