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Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
I was in a Philippine Department of Health (DOH) Government Hospital the other day. I spent most of the day at the Charity Maternity Ward.
At that time, there were probably 100 beds at that wing. I estimate an 80% occupancy. The midwives informed me it was a lean month--August and September being the peak months.Those months are when beds are in short supply and some mothers have to contend with just chairs.
Counting back from August and September, you'd realize that couples are most busy with their nocturnal activities during the coldest months of December, January and February. How about you? During what month were you born?
Young girls in a village near Kampong Speu, Cambodia. PSI was in the area promoting a local clinic, to be held the following day, providing birth control for rural women.
PSI (Population Services International) is working in this area to provide counselling and access to birth control to women as part of their reproductive health program.
PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival, HIV and tuberculosis, PSI promotes products, services and healthy behavior that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. Products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to motivate commercial sector involvement.
Kampong Speu, Cambodia. November 2008.
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Daw Khu Li village, Deemawsoe township, Kayah state.
With a new baby to look after and her husband unable to work, times are tough for 28 year-old Poe Myar and her family. However, thanks to Mi Myar’s intervention, Ku Saw Reh is now on the road to recovery. ‘The volunteers are important for the village. We rely on them. They make a difference,’ she says.
Photo: Christian Aid/Kaung Htet
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Samira, 28, mother of four, working as a midwife gives health advices to a patient in Foladi clinic on October 19, 2016 in Bamyan.
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Kirsten Dees of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest struts her stuff in fuchsia female condom attire designed by Marci Reichert of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest.
Photo: PATH/Danny Ngan.
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the world, a disproportionately high pregnancy rate among young girls in rural and impoverished areas has had a profoundly negative effect on their opportunities for education, health, and long-term employment. Nine in ten births among young girls occur within marriage or a union. Girls from ethnic minorities or marginalized groups are at greater risk. In the United Nations Population Fund’s latest State of World Population report, launched at the Wilson Center, the authors analyze not only the root causes of these inequities, but also solutions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/state-the-world-population-201...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...
‘In the past you’d visit the mother, ask how they’re feeling and not do too much else.’ Trained traditional birth attendants (TBAs) like Say Moe (31) [pictured left] now have the vital skills necessary to examine and monitor the well-being of mothers to be.
Photo: Christian Aid/KAUNG HTET
A police officer listens to members of the Movement to End Maternal Deaths at the entrance of IHK.
The Movement to End Maternal Deaths demands urgent action by govt to save mothers and newborns during pregnancy and childbirth.
On May 15, White Ribbon Alliance and partners under the The Movement to End Maternal Deaths in Uganda held a press conference and later marched to International Hospital Kampala (IHK), demanding urgent intervention by government to end the needless deaths of mothers and newborns during pregnancy, childbirth and the immediate period after birth.
This follows the continued deaths of mothers at various health facilities across the country and most recently, the death of a women’s rights advocate, Ms Nuliat Nambaziira at International Hospital Kampala on May 4th, 2018, from complications after delivery.
Sheila Kawamara, the Executive Director EAASI, where Nuliat worked said they are taking legal action to ensure justice for Nuliat. After the press conference, members marched to IHK to show their displeasure.
The Movement to End Maternal Deaths calls upon the government of Uganda to:
(1) Conduct maternal death audits and publish reports of all health facilities, including public and privately-run institutions to ensure that they have adequate facilities and personnel to handle pregnant women, mothers and babies at birth;
(2) Discipline negligent health workers by withdrawing practicing certificates from incompetent health practitioners that have caused deaths or maimed mothers out of negligence;
(3) Increase resourcing for maternal health and post midwives and doctors to rural hospitals to improve service delivery.
(4) Increase monitoring and inspection of private and government health facilities to address the critical issues affecting women for instance lack of essential materials.
#ItCouldBeYou #NotAnotherWoman #WhatWomenWant #CitizensVoices #EndMaternalDeaths
Uganda.
May 15, 2018.
Sixteen million girls between the ages of 15 and 19, and two million girls under 15 give birth every year. The majority of these girls are married. “Unprotected sexual activity contributes to a number of social risks and negative health outcomes for many young women and adolescent girls, including issues such as early pregnancy, STIs [sexually transmitted infections], HIV infection, obstetric fistula, unsafe abortion, nutrition outcomes, and gender-based violence,” said USAID’s Monique Widyono at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/tailored-to-fit-programming-fo...
Across the developing world, some 70 million girls under the age of 18 are married. Most of these girls have been taken out of school, are pregnant or parenting, and face a greater risk of being a victim of gender-based violence and contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While we know of their risks, there is much that we do not know about the daily lives of these girls or how to better meet their health care needs.
Join USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE, and Pathfinder International as they present findings on their work with married adolescent girls living in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, West Africa, and other low-resource regions.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/underage-addressing-reproducti...