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Jacky Phillips smiling at her daughter Lorren Hansen at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, as they share a joyful moment during a pediatric asthma check-up.
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Born With It or Brought On by the Air? The Many Faces of Chronic Lung Disease in Children

Michael Gwarisa

Michael Gwarisa, Cape Town “I almost quit my job so that I could monitor my child,” says Jacky Phillips, the mother of eight-year-old Lorren Hansen, who lives with severe asthma. Phillips works as a cashier at a fuel station in Atlantis, in South Africa’s Western Cape. She recalls that Lorren’s health challenges began shortly after

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