The Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers Association has commemorated International Waste Picker’s Day, calling on the government and the private sector to support them with funds and essential logistics. According to them, the support would aid them to secure community waste management contracts to enable them to undertake door-step waste collection.…
Opinion
OPINION 2021 On this page you will find a collection of opinion pieces. Opinion pieces provide detailed viewpoints written by groundWork staff and researchers. Most of these items will also appear in the press, both print and online. Deadly air case truly a matter of life or death
13 May 2021 – In early 2003, landmark litigation was brought by the Treatment Action Campaign against the government. The TAC confronted the government for not providing proven and cost effective medicines for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV to pregnant mothers. It won the court case on the basis of the constitutional guarantee of the right to health care, and the government was ordered to start programmes for prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV in public health facilities.