Unsafe Sex Threatens Girls’ Health Worldwide. The Prescription? Feminism

Unsafe Sex Threatens Girls’ Health Worldwide. The Prescription? Feminism
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Back in 1990, unsafe sex came an unremarkable 14th in the worldwide risk table for deaths among adolescent boys, and 11th in the risk table for girls, according to a three-decade, global Lancet study. It was, in other words, well below inadequate hand-washing as a threat to health. But by 2013, it was reported last week, unsafe sex had risen to be the second riskiest behaviour for boys and the greatest single risk to the health of girls.

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