Further analysis of the Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys, 2001-2011
Further analysis of the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey
Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV and Young People
Guidance Brief
Accessed: 09.11.2019
Challenges in achieving the MDG for maternal mortality. In-depth analysis of the EDHS 2000-2011
This Toolkit is intended to guide humanitarian programme managers and healthcare providers to ensure that sexual and reproductive health interventions put into place both during and after a crisis are responsive to the unique needs of adolescents.
Midwifery Capacity Building Strategy for Northern Syria
2017-2021
Available in Arabic
Monitoring the situation of children and women
Guidelines on care, treatment and support for women living with HIV/AIDS and their children in resource-constrained settings
Russian Federation
Accessed: 24.09.2019
India has the largest number of
child brides in the world — one
third of the global total.1
Yet, recent data indicates that
in the last decade there has
been a significant decline in the
prevalence of child marriage
from 47 per cent to 27 per cent
of the proportion of women aged
20-24 yea...rs who were married
before age 18 from 2005/2006
to 2015/2016.2 Child marriage
among young men and boys has
also seen a positive change.
National and state averages,
however, mask realities at the
district level, and despite the
overall decline, a few districts
continue to have very high rates
of child marriage. (Child marriage
rates among women in a few
districts of Rajasthan and Bihar,
continue to be in the range of 47
per cent to 51 per cent).
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The report finds that, as of 3 November, in 87 countries with age-disaggregated data, children and adolescents under 20 years of age accounted for 1 in 9 of COVID-19 infections, or 11 per cent of the 25.7 million infections reported by these countries. More reliable, age-disaggregated data on infect...ion, deaths and testing is needed to better understand how the crisis impacts the most vulnerable children and guide the response
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Lessons from a decade of Progress