South Africa: Need to Take Battle for Health to Global Level

The time has come for social activists to campaign for a Global Constitution on the Right to Health ending the current status quo where "our ill health is politically constructed by those above us", activist Mark Heywood told the 3rd People's Health Assembly (PHA).

Addressing the plenary session, Heywood who is also Executive Director of SECTION27, showed shocking photographs of toilets at Limpopo schools - some inside ramshackle corrugated iron sheds, some without doors and most blocked and overflowing with faeces.

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