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Womens and Childrens Health

Too Young to Wed: Working Together to End Child Marriage

Carole Presern | Posted 05.06.2013 | Impact
Read More: Girls, Post-2015, Violence Against Women, Human Rights, Global Motherhood, Women's and Children's Health, Newborns, Millennium Development Goals, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Child Brides, Child Marriage, Impact News
Carole Presern

Adolescent pregnancy is a universal issue that occurs for many different reasons. But in nine out of 10 cases in developing countries, where complications during pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death, the young mother is already married.

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Joining Up for Women's and Children's Health

Jan Eliasson | Posted 11.20.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Water, Global Health, Women's and Children's Health, Sanitation, Ban Ki Moon, Healthy Living Body, Personal Health, United Nations, UN Secretary-General, Women's Health, Children's Health, Healthy Living News
Jan Eliasson

If we are to bring about the drop in mother and child mortality rates that we all wish for, integrated approaches to health and development that cut across artificial institutional barriers are the right way forward.

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