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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

This paper presents specific and useful suggestions for successfully using phone interviewing as a means of data collection in research studies. The lessons and insights are intended for anyone conducting research with phone interviews, particularly the novice researcher. The authors speak directly...

We have an obligation to invest where it makes the most difference for children. But how do we decide what will reap the greatest benefits in the long term? The dilemma of whether to invest in services that provide immediate benefits, or in evidence generating initiatives for the long term, is a...

This booklet offers parents, caregivers, and other adults suggestions on how to help children cope with the effects of disaster, as well as how to be prepared before a disaster strikes. Children can feel very frightened during a disaster and afterwards some children will show temporary changes of...

This piece looks at the rates of HIV/AIDs among children in Sub-Saharan Africa and current programs to address such rates. https://blog.savethechildren.org/category/u-s-programs/child-survival

This month's issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health includes three articles that focus on the detection and outcome of depression in adolescence. This editorial attempts to identify some key themes arising from these studies and to contextualize the findings from a global perspective. Naicker and...

Regardless of where a family or caregiver falls on the poverty line, children deserve adequate nutrition, access to healthcare and the opportunity to enroll in and complete school. Yet, children are often unjustly impacted by poverty and disproportionately represented in measurements of poverty. As...

This article argues that humanitarian aid should be administered on the principle of selfless assistance, not for political gain for the administering country. He feels that certain NGOs use humanitarian aid as a guise for promoting political interests instead of promoting safer livelihoods for...