Milk is medicine
Nov 18, 2019
4 minutes
WHO IS STAŠA JORDAN?
I was born Staša Kersevan in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1978, to a multi-ethnic family comprising Croats and Serbs. By naturalisation after World War II we were given Italian citizenship. I studied political science at the University of Cape Town, and I went on to do a master’s degree in public policy design and research at the University of Pretoria. In 2003, I was looking at HIV-positive mothers and investigating human-milk banking, and so the South African Breastmilk Reserve (SABR) was born. Around the same time I was also becoming a mother.
YOU HAVE A 16-YEAR OLD SON, LOGAN, AND A TEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, SOPHIA.
Yes, it was with the birth of Logan that I was inspired toward maternal and child-health policy and public-health
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