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Girls Health

Let Every Woman's Voice Ring

Frida Giannini | Posted 04.30.2013 | Impact
Read More: Video, Chime for Change, Girls Literacy, Women Literacy, Chime, Global Motherhood, Ted Chime, Women Education, Girls Education, Girls Health, Women Tech, Impact News
Frida Giannini

By promoting and funding progress in the areas of education, health and justice, we can change the prospects for girls and women, and those girls and women can change the world.

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Davos 2013: A Jumping-Off Point for Young Leaders to Address Girls' and Women's Health

Kate Roberts | Posted 03.26.2013 | Business
Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Davos 2013, World Economic Forum 2013, Davos, Women's Health, Global Motherhood, Girls' Health, World Economic Forum, Girls Education, Business News
Kate Roberts

Today, 75 percent of HIV infections among 15- to 24-year-olds in Sub-Saharan Africa alone are young women, and up to one-half of girls in developing countries become mothers before the age of 18. The network of young leaders in the World Economic Forum can be instrumental in changing that.

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The Top 10 Global Health Moments of 2012

Marshall Stowell | Posted 02.12.2013 | Impact
Read More: Global Health, HPV Vaccine, Child Mortality, Gates Foundation Toilets, International AIDS Conference, International AIDS Conference 2012, Child Survival Call to Action, London Summit on Family Planning, IAC 2012, Public-Private Partnerships, India Polio, Girls' Health, Iac, Child Survival, AIDS 2012, Impact News
Marshall Stowell

In the year-end issue of Impact, we announce the top 10 global health milestones of 2012. We asked some of the world's most renowned leaders in global health to comment on why these moments made the list. What we heard was insightful and, in many cases, encouraging.

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Why Do Girls Drop Out Of School? It's All About What Happens In The Girls' Room

Susan Davis | Posted 05.07.2012 | Women
Read More: Women's Health Global Poverty, Women's Health Initiative, Girls' Education, International Development, Clean-Water, Clean Water, Girl's Health, Global Motherhood, Girls' Health, Water Sanitation, 2012 International Women's Day, Women's Education, Global Sanitation, Women News
Susan Davis

More people in the world now have a mobile phone than have a toilet. As we celebrate International Women's Day on March eighth, let's not forget that girls and women suffer the most from lack of sanitation.

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How Mothers Unintentionally Harm Their Daughters' Self-Confidence

Joyce McFadden | Posted 08.23.2011 | Women
Read More: Girl's Body Image, Anorexia, Women's Body Image, Healthy Sexuality, Women's Health, Eating Disorders, Girls' Health, Wall Street Journal, Bulimia, Talking to Daughters About Sex, Good Morning America, Women News
Joyce McFadden

Although we don't mean to, we mothers often model for our daughters our own insecurities and the way we ourselves succumb to ridiculous standards of beauty.

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Say What? Talking with Teens about Sex

Deborah Schoeberlein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Personal Health, Sex, Teens, Parenting, Parental Involvement, Parents, Adolescents, Girls' Health, Women's Health, Teen Sex, Healthy Living News
Deborah Schoeberlein

Talking about "it" at home is crucial because kids who dialogue with their parents about sex, may well be less likely to "do it" before they're ready.

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Families Use Social Media To Respond To Gardasil Side Effects

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: HPV Vaccine, Vaers, Merck & Co, Michelle Obama, Living News, American Academy of Pediatrics, Gardasil Vaccine, Cdc, Maria Shriver, Facebook, Vaccines, Informed Consent, Social Media, Cnn, Fda, Health, Hillary Clinton, Vaccinations, Girls' Health, Healthy Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

As parents sought to navigate a situation where their healthy daughters had become sick and, in the worse case scenario - died, they turned to the Internet for answers.

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Onward and Upward - Girls' Issues Make an Impact at TEDIndia and in Ethiopia

Maria Eitel | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Ted, Girl's Health, Global Health, Girls, Tedindia, Global Economy, Women's Health, Womane, World News
Maria Eitel

TEDIndia was further proof that girls are clearly getting on governments' and organizations' agendas.

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