For years, Suzanne Petroni, senior director at the International Center for Research on Women, would speak — backed by mountains of evidence she studies — about the number one cause of death among women around the world: maternal mortality.
Then, in September, 2014, the World Health Organization released its report on"Health for the World's Adolescents: A Second Chance in the Second Decade."
"I read the report, and there was one line tucked away," says Petroni. The line addressed females age 15 to 19. "The number one cause of death had changed," she says. "It was suicide."
That finding made headlines around the world last month after it was cited at a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation event.
[For more of this story, written by Susan Brink, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/go...for-older-teen-girls]
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