Health of young men and women has very marked specifications comparing to any other populational sector. So, while children and elderly people deal with numerous and diverse diseases (for which there are treatments, medicines, etc) young people “don’t get ill”, in the classic sense at least, as is shown on the statistics related to diseases medical care. Actually, main causes of young people mortality and mortability have to do with “external causes”, related in almost every case to violence: car accidents, unsafe abortions, homicides and suicides, particularly.
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The City of Rio de Janeiro, the FC Barcelona Foundation, NBA and Inter-American Development Bank announce new sports partnership that will benefit approximately 140,000 children and youth. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 May 2011 )
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UNFPA. This publication looks at current data, trends and differentials in universal access to reproductive health, the second target of Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5.b).
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Last Updated ( Monday, 04 October 2010 )
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-Carradeux the camp Caroline Noel, a 34 year old woman and her family live in, together with 1999 other families, has been hit severely by a strong storm passing through Port au Prince yesterday. Many tents have been swept away by the storm and flash floods.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 September 2010 )
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Maria Victoria Urquizo (15) was raped by a co-worker when she was 14 years old. Now she lives with her baby girl at ther brother's house.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 August 2010 )
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You, Your Life, Your Dreams is a book that helps young people make informed decisions about their sexual lives. Easy to read and visually attractive, it provides accessible, objective, and urgently-needed information on a broad range of sexual and reproductive health issues. Designed for young people and for educators who work with them, the manual was originally conceived for use in English-speaking Africa, and is now being distributed in three languages and four different versions reflecting the regional contexts and the unique challenges facing adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Download Part I, Part II, Part III for the English- speaking Caribbean |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 November 2008 )
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Most smokers begin the habit before reaching their 18th birthday, and a quarter of those began smoking before age 10, writes Mirta Roses, director of the Pan-American Health Organization, in this exclusive column for Tierramérica. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 June 2008 )
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