Child streetism in Ghana, the need for intervention (3)

6 March, 2025

ISSOP has done much work on street and working children see statement:

https://issop.org/2024/01/05/declaration-on-optimizing-the-health-wellbe...

and there is also a topic collection in BMJ Paediatric Open which has much valuable experience from around the world:

https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/pages/health-and-wellbeing-of-street-and-wo...

Tony Waterston

CHIFA profile

Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.

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