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We are looking for six young health advocates and/or professionals (18-29 years) from diverse backgrounds, to work with us to set up a Youth Network for The Lancet Standing Commission. Applications close 21st August.

Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18 – that’s one in three girls in the developing world (excluding China). These girls are robbed of their rights to safety and security, to health, to education, and to make their own choices and decisions for their lives.

A new Australian study reveals the twenty-year outcomes of adolescents who self-harmed, show worrying levels of substance abuse by age 35.

The Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health (The Coalition) is a global network of expert individuals and academic centres and institutions that have explicitly expressed commitment to a collectively-developed set of principles and plans of advancing global child health.

Youth and young professionals are encouraged to participate in the 11th World Congress on Adolescent Health. Youth applications for the IAAH Adolescent Health Congress are now open and the deadline for submission is May 31, 2017.

The Lancet is proud to announce the launch of a new journal — The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

A major Australian study of almost 3,700 children has found that social and economic disadvantage can be a trigger for the early onset of puberty, putting disadvantaged children at higher risk of a host of associated future health problems.

The Global AA-HA! Guidance aims to assist governments in deciding what they plan to do – and how they plan to do it – as they respond to the health needs of adolescents in their countries.

Launch of the WHO “Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to Support Country Implementation”

Read the new ‘Systematic Review of Positive Youth Development (PYD) Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries’ by YouthPower Learning