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More than 3,000 adolescents die every day, totalling 1.2 million deaths a year, from largely preventable causes, according to a new report from the World Health Organization, UNESCO and partners.

The Education sector has responsability to prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs: this is the new booklet in the UNESCO series ‘Good Policy and Practice in Health Education’.

Bibliodiversa offers a wide array of documents about the LGBT community including academic studies and publications from UNESCO, UNICEF, NGOs and international and national partners.

Reflecting growing international recognition of the inter-relationship between education and health, UNESCO is releasing today a new strategy on Education for Health and Well-Being.

As part of efforts to ensure all young people have access to comprehensive, life-skills based sexuality education, UNESCO screened a new video on the side-lines of this year’s AIDS Conference.

In some countries, 85 per cent of LGBT students experience homophobic and transphobic violence in school, 45 per cent of transgender students drop out.

In the early 2000s, the Mulwari Secondary School, located in the outskirts of Livingstone, Zambia, was deeply impacted by the high prevalence of HIV in the local community.

Students learn best in schools that provide safety and social support. However, some young people experience violence and harassment in, around, and on the way to school.

Ah Hea Touch, a grade 11 transman student, dreads English class because he knows his teacher will single him out for abuse, telling him that being transgender is shameful and sinful.

Students learn best in schools that provide safety and social support. However, some young people experience violence and harassment in, around, and on the way to school.

Originally hailing from Tullamore, Ireland, Professor Father Michael Kelly has spent more than 50 years living and working in Zambia, where he is now a citizen.

This report finds that more of the nearly 1 billion young people in the Asia and Pacific region are having sex before marriage than ever before, yet many lack of information on sexual health.