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***ual health issues facing teen girls globally — and how you can help
Girls may run the world, but they're also up against major inequality
— and they could use more support.
July 11 is
World Population Day, an annual U.N. event that focuses on the urgent
issues affecting the world's booming population. This year's theme is "investing in teenage girls"
— a call for attention and action on this particularly vulnerable part of the global population.
Of the more than 7 billion people in the world, approximately
1 billion are young
girls between the ages of 10 and 24. And they're
facing some big challenges, from high rates of child marriage to inadequate
health care access.*
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