Sentences with phrase «of adolescent girls for»

MEMPHIS, TN — Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) is calling for better screening of adolescent girls for sexually transmitted infections as a result of a study released this week by a prestigious medical journal.

In a more recent study, researchers tracked the diets, physical activity, and stress fracture incidences of adolescent girls for seven years, and concluded that dairy products and calcium do not prevent stress fractures in adolescent girls.

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Congress identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self - discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption as an alternative for adolescent parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and child rearing.»

This condition typically arises during the growth spurts in the adolescent years; between the ages of 8 and 13 for girls, and 10 and 15 for boys.

Wrong Crystal, OB / GYN are primary care physicians who take care of adolescent girls, provide contraception and STD prevention, annual exams and preventative medicine, treatment for abnormal menstruation and infertility, cancers, osteoporosis, menopause and yes pregnancy!

She further stated that «if for any unfortunate reason an anaemic adolescent girl becomes pregnant, she has a higher risk of delivering a premature baby, a low birth weight baby or even tragically die during or after delivery.»

«We expect that about three - quarters of this investment will come from the IDA, our fund for the poorest countries, and will go largely to sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, which have the largest number of out - of - school adolescent girls,» he said.

Ashanti regional minister, Simon Osei - Mensah asked for collective effort towards addressing adolescent pregnancy to secure the future of most girls.

... We know the impact that this can have on adolescents, boys and girls, and we have the chance to say that we will seize the moment in policy terms to do something about it... We can end, once and for all, the hypocrisy of tabloids moaning about paedophiles on one page and then saying «hello Gemma, 16 today, first pictures of Gemma aged 16».

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Agencies receiving Year - Round funding in 2014 include: Access of WNY, Inc. ($ 10,000), African Cultural Center of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 8,500), Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (Big Brothers Big Sisters)($ 7,500), Blossom Garden Friends School ($ 3,000), Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 7,500), Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys & Girls Club of Northtowns of WNY, Inc. ($ 12,500), Boys & Girls Club of Orchard Park, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys and Girls Club East Aurora, Inc. ($ 15,000), Buffalo Urban League, Inc. ($ 12,500), Canisius College ($ 5,000), Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Inc. ($ 5,500), Child and Family Services of Erie County (Haven House)($ 10,000), Compeer West, Inc. ($ 10,000), Computers for Children, Inc. ($ 7,500), Cradle Beach Camp, Inc. ($ 12,500), Daemen College ($ 10,000), Elim Community Corporation ($ 5,000), Erie Regional Housing Dev.

Despite progress to date, LARCs remain out of reach for many women and adolescent girls — especially the poorest and most marginalized.

In recognition of the theme of the 2013 International Conference on Family Planning, Full Access, Full Choice, the Bellagio Group reaffirms its commitment to expanding access to highly effective, long - acting, reversible contraception for women and adolescent girls within the full range of contraceptive choice.

Of adolescents visiting the emergency department for any reason, one in five girls and one in eight boys reported dating violence in the past year.

«Thus, finding ways to reduce exposure to these stressors or developing more effective ways of responding to these stressors may be beneficial for adolescents, especially girls.»

For this study, conducted at 52 ambulatory care sites in 15 countries, five groups were enrolled: (1) girls ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 6 months apart (n = 301); (2) boys ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 6 months apart (n = 301); (3) girls and boys ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 12 months apart (n = 301); (4) girls ages 9 to 14 years to receive 3 doses over 6 months (n = 301); and (5) a control group of adolescent girls and young women ages 16 to 26 years to receive 3 doses over 6 months (n = 314).

«Job loss was not simply a proxy for other aspects of the state's economic climate, but instead represented a meaningful economic shock, which led to changes in girls» and black adolescents» suicide - related behaviors,» Gassman - Pines writes.

Currently, it is recommended that teenagers perform a minimum of 60 minutes of daily exercise to prevent future disease, however according to the Health Survey for England less than 30 % of adolescent boys and 20 % of adolescent girls achieve this amount.

Among adolescent girls, infection rates fell from 11.5 percent of sexually active girls in 2006 to 5.1 percent in 2013, says the study's lead author, Lauri Markowitz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Adolescents girls with sexual abuse - related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experienced greater benefit from prolonged exposure therapy (a type of therapy that has been shown effectiveness for adults) than from supportive counseling, according to a study appearing in the December 25 issue of JAMA.

Each month for three months afterward, the girls completed an established and well - validated 25 - question survey, the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory, to assess occurrence of any sexual, physical or psychological victimization.

Professor Abdool Karim is a member of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel and Scientific Advisor to the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Scientific Advisory Board member of the US President's Emergency Pan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Chair of the PEPFAR Adolescent Girls and Young Women Expert Working Group, a member of the HIV Centre Strategic Advisory Committee and the NIH OAR Microbicides Planning Group.

Prior to that, she was the Director of Co-Investments at the Nike Foundation's Girl Effect, where she led a $ 210 million partnership between the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce new HIV infections in adolescent girls and young women.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

Someone with early stages of iron deficiency may have no symptoms, so it is important for at - risk groups (such as adolescent girls, pregnant women, and young children) to be screened.

Modulation of gonadotropin - releasing hormone pulse generator sensitivity to progesterone inhibition in hyperandrogenic adolescent girls — implications for regulation of pubertal maturation.

389 D IETARY, FUNCTIONAL, AND TOTAL FIBER Total Fiber AI Summary, Ages 19 Years and Older AI for Men 19â $ «30 years 38 g / d of Total Fiber 31â $ «50 years 38 g / d of Total Fiber 51â $ «70 years 30 g / d of Total Fiber > 70 years 30 g / d of Total Fiber AI for Women 19â $ «30 years 25 g / d of Total Fiber 31â $ «50 years 25 g / d of Total Fiber 51â $ «70 years 21 g / d of Total Fiber > 70 years 21 g / d of Total Fiber Pregnancy Method Used to Set the AI There is no evidence to suggest the beneficial effects of fiber in reduc - ing the risk of CHD for pregnant adolescent girls and women is different from nonpregnant adolescent girls and women.

Total Fiber AI Summary, Pregnancy AI for Pregnant Women 14â $ «18 years 28 g / d of Total Fiber 19â $ «30 years 28 g / d of Total Fiber 31â $ «50 years 28 g / d of Total Fiber Lactation Method Used to Set the AI There is no evidence to suggest the beneficial effects of fiber in reduc - ing the risk of CHD for lactating adolescent girls and women are different from nonpregnant adolescent girls and women.

A saree looks perfect on an adolescent girl or for that matter a middle - aged woman who wish to look gorgeous and beautiful, and we at «Kalki» have perfectly understood the fashion taste of Indian woman and brought for you a classic collection of bridal sarees, printed sarees in silk, embroidered sarees and much more.

1st base is when you first make out with your companion or (boy / girl) it is dry lips, then grdualy put your tounge into the others mouth and play with it foer a little bit which is 2nd you feel a higher level of sexual conection and start to get into 3rd base when you start feeling on each other slowwly and intamately while stile french he is done touching and stroaking your upper parts (breasts) you start to feel more intamate and both of you work your way Among American adolescents, baseball metaphors for sex are often used as euphemisms for the degree of physical intimacy achieved in sexual encounters or relationships.

A hauntingly evoked tale of three adolescent girls» first loves, discovery of sexual passion, and search for identity.

In this moment, Campion finds one of her earliest platforms for experimenting with expressionistic conventions of cinema like the chiaroscuro - style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.3 With this scene, Campion also perfectly encapsulates the isolating, confusing and ultimately frightening mood around adolescent, female sexuality in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «60s.

The most interesting of these is a sequence in which Chicken Little is a girl: according to Dindal / Fullmer, the character got a sex change on the advice of former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who had the not - outrageous epiphany that being short is a bigger hurdle for an adolescent boy to overcome.

Seattle director Megan Griffiths (SIFF prizewinner for Eden in 2012) returns with a study of an adolescent girl who plots an unorthodox solution to the long absences of her military father and the wavering fidelity of her mother (played by the great Melanie Lynskey, who'll be in town as the recipient of a festival tribute this year).

John Tucker Must Die centers on three ex-girlfriends (Ashanti, Sophia Bush and Arielle Kebbel) of the titular high school basketball stud and serial cheater (Desperate Housewives» Jesse Metcalfe) who collaborate to turn the tables on their former beau by getting him to fall for the new girl in town (Brittany Snow) in order to watch him get his heart broken, so sure, it tapped into, in savvy fashion, a certain vein of female adolescent vengeance.

OK, a huge proportion of films are made for adolescent boys, and there's nothing necessarily wrong with making films for adolescent girls, as this surely is.

Bresson's Mouchette, a very young, utterly disenfranchised girl who is both sexually precocious, sexually abused, and suicidal, was likely a template for many of Breillat's own tortured adolescents.

Annie Silverstein and Andrea Arnold both earned attention at the Cannes Film Festival for these coming - of - age stories about adolescent girls growing up in tough economic circumstances and learning to confront the sexual power wielded by men.

by Walter Chaw Angry businessman Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) tunes in and drops out when, after chasing a raccoon into the unused attic of his garage, he decides to live there for a few months, spying on his wife Diana (Jennifer Garner) and their twin «budding adolescent» girls (as E.L. Doctorow, author of the story upon which this is based, calls them).

As part of the U.S. government's commitment to Let Girls Learn, First Lady Michelle Obama and the Peace Corps have formed a powerful collaboration to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the wGirls Learn, First Lady Michelle Obama and the Peace Corps have formed a powerful collaboration to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the wgirls around the world.

After West Point, Phaovisaid went back to the village to teach basketball — one of her passions — to adolescent girls, and self - defense to low - income women who had moved to Bangkok, often alone, for work.

I consider how girls and women navigate between their roles as students, workers, wives, and mothers, and ask what it means for adolescents and the project of education when reproduction is taken to signal schooling's failed promise.

Among the cases Stevenson cites: a 14 - year - old condemned to death for killing his mother's abusive boyfriend and a mentally ill adolescent girl condemned to life in prison for second - degree murder for the death of young boys killed in a fire she started accidentally.

Sex education being impossible for the adolescent boys of Chicago's Mission of Our Lady of Mercy, we had parochial high school girls brought in by bus.

Moved by Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's adolescent girls, Shandler yearned to speak for herself, and to provide a forum for other Ophelias to do so as well.

Or how about Melvin Burgess's Doing It about, well, what's on the mind of every hormone addled adolescent boy, that includes a dilemma about falling for an overweight girl.

She is the author of How Girls Thrive, Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, and The Driver s Manual for Your Adolescent Brain.

On this occasion those charities were: Living Word Church, located just around the corner from Baymen Gardens, S.H.I.N.E., a recently formed community group that provides a positive environment for adolescent girls, and the Samuel Haynes Institute of Excellence, which provides after - school programs and educational outreach to school - aged children in Belize City.

Dutch artist Hellen van Meene is best known for her carefully staged portraits of adolescent girls, revealing the psychological tension and ambiguity of this transitional stage of life.

There is a sense of lifetimes in his paintings that continue from childhood to old age, for he makes sure the viewer knows that the girl is adolescent and that the woman holding flowers is elderly, yet we can't help but wonder who the «The Chaperone» is.