(Photo by Nardus Engelbrecht/Gallo Images via Getty Images) Nearly a third of informal workers were "locked out" of employment during April, at the height of lockdown.Researchers suggest government increase social protections to informal sector participants substantially.Interventions call for the extension of the special Covid-19 grant to the end of 2020. To better protect informal workers from the…
Tobacco association plans to fight government's U-turn on cigarette salesThe NCCC, however, allowed spaza shops and informal traders to trade essential goods with a permit, in a bid to allow them to earn a living during the pandemic.SAITA - which conducts business in communities as traders - claims that smokers are now risking their lives…
Here in the northern hemisphere, winter famously contributes to widespread vitamin D deficiency as sunlight exposure decreases. The trend is “very marked in clinical practice," Mary Gover, MD, an internal medicine doctor at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care in New York City, tells SELF. What you might not know, however, is that vitamin D isn’t the
Your 30s and 40s are what some would consider the best years of your life. You’re no longer “figuring it out,” but you aren’t “old” by society’s ageist standards either. It should be a sweet spot—right? But despite the illusion of stability and security, it’s also common for anxiety and self-doubt to worsen during your
5 min read WHEN THE JUSTICE Department released a trove of Epstein-related files on January 30 and then pulled down thousands of pages after redaction failures exposed victims’ identifying information and explicit material, I felt a familiar gut-drop. Once again, the people with the least power were being asked to pay twice—first for the abuse