New resources added

Season Greetings everyone,

Just letting you know that some exciting new publications have been added to our website. Click here to go directly to the resource page to see the complete list or see below for details on the new publications.

  • Adolescent health: boys matter too – Lancet Editorial: Adolescent health: boys matter too
  • Pushing equity for girls & young women – Lancet Profile: Suzanne Petroni: pushing equity for girls and young women. A wonderful profile piece on one of our Commissioners, Dr Suzanne Petroni who is the Senior Director for Gender, Population and Development at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW).
  • Global Strategy (2016-2030) – WHO: Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health 2016-2030 is a roadmap to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for all women, children and adolescents –to transform the future and ensure every newborn, mother, child and adolescent not only survives, but thrives.
  • Shelter from the Storm – UNFPA: State of the World Population 2015: Shelter from the Storm – A transformative agenda for women and girls in a crisis prone world  is the latest report from UNFPA. More than 100 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. Among those displaced are tens of millions of women and adolescent girls. This report is a call to action to meet their needs and ensure their rights.
  • Global Standards for quality health care – WHO: Global Standards for quality health care services for adolescents report aims to assist policy-makers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services so that adolescents find it easier to obtain the health services that they need to promote, protect and improve their health and wellbeing.