The Mother and Child Foundation

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

About Us

Our missions are:

To relieve the sickness and disability and preserve and protect the health of newborn infants of low birth weight.
To advance the education of the medical and nursing profession, general public and particularly the parents of such children concerning low birth weight, its causes and effects.
To promote and assist research, prevention, alleviation and management of such ill health and disability.

our board of members ...

Patron
The Most Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu, OMS, DD, FKC

Chairman
Major Christopher Robinson

Vice-Presidents
Ms Anne Dawson-Shepherd; Professor Cedric Hassall, DSc, FRS; Mrs Frances Kelly Hilton; Dr Alan Garton, FRSE, FRS

Treasurer/Research Director
Professor Michael A. Crawford, PhD, CBiol, FIBiol, FRCPath

UK Directors
Mrs Hazel Clayton; Lord Rea of Eskdale, MD, FRCGP; Dr Zehra Hassam, MB ChB, FRCPath; Dr Robert E. Lister, PhD, CBiol, FIBiol; Mr Michael Pirkis, Dip Agric; Mrs Rosemary Turnbull Tarn;
Sir Kenneth Stuart, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPPE, FACP, FFPM, FFPHM, DTM&H

USA Director
Dr David J. Kyle

Secretary
Ms Catherine Lehane

administration ...

The Foundation does not, at this time, have its own premises. The work is voluntary and there are no paid staff.

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Mental Ill Health Now The Highest Cost To Ill Health

The June issue of the European Journal of Neurology (vol12:1-27), Patrik Andin-Soboki et al, report the total cost for the 25 member states of the EU as a staggering €386 billion at 2004 costs that is €829 per head. A large part of the cause has its origins in early development. In a letter to the Lancet at the end of August, the Foundation blames the elite advisory system supposedly giving Government advice on health, nutrition and education for ignoring mental ill health and low birthweight which is the single most important determinant of mental impairment. (Crawford M et al Lancet. 2005; 366:714-5).

New Evidence on the Cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Adverse prenatal conditions predispose to Cot Death.

A study reported in the Lancet of more than a quarter of a million women in Scotland found that stunted prenatal growth and pre-term delivery were at the highest risk. And a previous cot death increased the risk, destroying the often used accusation of child abuse as the cause.

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