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Prioritizing The Family Planning Needs Of Young Women
The world reached a population milestone in October, but "[i]n the many discussions that have sprung up around the seven billion benchmark -- all of them important and illuminating -- I don't hear enough about our world's most vulnerable: our youth," Jill Sheffield, founder and president of Women Deliver, writes in this Huffington Post opinion piece. "Nearly half of the world's seven billion inhabitants is under the age of 25," she notes, adding "when it comes to sexual and reproductive health, young women and girls around the world face tremendous challenges -- which demand tremendous solutions."
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