CIAO DATE: 01/2011
August 2010
Improving adolescent girls’ health and wellbeing is critical to achieving virtually all international development goals, from reducing infant and child deaths to stimulating economic growth and encouraging environmental sustainability. Governments and donors seem to recognize this, but they have yet to take the specific actions needed to genuinely invest in adolescent girls’ health and, thereby, the health and wellbeing of generations to come.
Resource link: Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health [PDF] - 1.3M