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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...

Africa is home to approximately two-thirds of the global population living with HIV and—despite a decline in HIV infection rates and AIDS mortality—the epidemic continues to take a toll across the continent. At the same time, Africa is home to 15 of the 20 countries with the highest prevalence rates...

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

A sobering, even bleak, picture was painted by the team evaluating the implementation of the EU’s first Gender Action Plan, or GAP as it is commonly known. While we all knew that this wasn’t going to be a rosy account, good news was certainly thin on the ground. GAP AFTER GAP The GAP was widely...

China released its national plan for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which translates each target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into "action plans" for China. The national implementation plan reviews China’s experience and achievements in implementing the...

In the Matope community, and other parts of rural Malawi, female adolescence remains a worry amongst policy makers. When proper washroom facilities are not available to them, girls are reluctant to attend school during their monthly cycles. This stalls government efforts to get – and keep – girls in...

HAVERTOWN, Pennsylvania — Worldwide, over 66 million girls do not attend school. While significant steps have been made toward achieving gender parity in education, progress has slowed in recent years and some areas still have high inequality. Here are three ways that research has shown improve...