Healthy life trajectories Initiative: 
The Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) is an international consortium developed in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Canada, India, China, and South Africa. Drawing on interdisciplinary evidence from DOHaD, and adopting a life-course perspective, HeLTI hypothesises that an integrated complex intervention, comprising a continuum of care from preconception, through pregnancy, infancy and early childhood will promote young women’s physical and mental health, in order to establish healthier trajectories for themselves and future offspring. As part of HeLTI SA, the Extensive qualitative work has been (and is being) conducted as part of the 