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Youth represent the world of tomorrow, and a heightening force in urban environments around the globe today. According to the UNFPA’s State of the World Population’s 2007 Youth Supplement, Growing Up Urban, “[t]he world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history.” Exciting opportunities face adolescents in urban centers.
Many of the communities in the world follow a faith tradition or traditions. The materials we share in this Trending Topic were specifically developed for faith leaders or within specific faith communities. These may be implemented by FBOs, NGOs or secular or non-secular service providers.
Gender roles and relations impact a broad array of health issues. Social norms and expectations of how men and women should behave contribute to problems such as violence against women and the transmission of HIV/AIDS. Discrimination against women and girls also results in the neglect of issues that uniquely affect them, such as maternal mortality, and also results in a lack of attention to the causes and consequences of disease that impact men and women differently. Gender concerns are gaining increasing importance in health communication programs.
