Boarding Schools for Girls

In her Sept. 29 article on the website Tonic.com, Katherine Gustafson reported that attendees at the recently completed annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative had made a number of commitments that could significantly improve the lives of women and girls.

The following were three of the commitments that Gustafson cited:

• Pharmaceutical giants Merck and Qiagen have launched a new project to prevent cervical cancer by providing at least 1.5 million girls and 1.5 million women access to HPV vaccines and HPV DNA tests.
• Sustainable Health Enterprises will make sure one million girls and women in Africa get access to cheap, environmentally friendly sanitary pads and education on health and hygiene by 2012.
• Plan USA and partners are taking on a three-year project to train 140 adolescent Ghanaian girls in journalism and media production to help them speak out against gender discrimination.

Labels: international, conference, HPV

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