One of the international challenges is to actually create an infrastructure in many countries that constructs schools and equips them with trained teachers so children can experience a basic education. The UN millennium development goals reflect this and great progress is being made on access to a universal basic education. However it is a modest goal that, for example, doesn’t necessarily apply to teenagers. It therefore follows that school health promotion and education is a very low priority in many parts of the world, where the important issues of basic literacy have not been solved and young women.
