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"Health literacy — the ability of individuals
to access, understand, and use health-
related information and services to make appropriate health decisions -
touches every aspect of our lives."

-Richard H. Carmona,
United States Surgeon General

How You Can Help

A gift of $50 will support health literacy classes for 25 young women in Africa or Asia. Give the gift of education!

How World Ed is Helping
In the United States, World Education has developed ground-breaking health literacy resources for adults and healthcare providers: the Family and Health Literacy Compendium and the Health and Literacy Special Collection. World Education also supports health literacy programs in ten countries in Africa, Asia and the Near East.

Teen girls in rural Pakistan learn literacy and basic health messages at a critical time in their lives.

Education is the cornerstone of change for girls and women around the world.

Last year, World Education helped nearly 750,000 girls and women take control over their lives and change conditions in their communities through education, health, economic and social development programs.

Today, our work spans across Africa, Asia and the United States. Learn more.

Projects

Learn more about our initiatives in girls' and women's education, HIV and AIDS prevention and care, child labor and human trafficking, sustainable agriculture, and adult basic education at www.worlded.org.

Publications

World Education is a leader in developing publications for the field. Download our 2004 Annual Report
Health is important to all of us and often the topic of choice for adult literacy learners here in the United States and throughout the developing world.

World Education has been a leader in health literacy for more than 40 years.

World Education's programs in health literacy bring vital, sometimes life-saving information to low-literacy adults and their families about issues that include cancer, personal and family health, and HIV and AIDS, to name a few.
Improving Health and Literacy for Women in Egypt
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Young Egyptian women learn valuable personal and family health information in World Ed's integrated health and literacy program.

In Egypt, women are learning more about their health as they learn to read through World Education’s integrated literacy initiative. Funded by the Ford Foundation, World Education's integrated literacy project uses health information as content for literacy programs.

The project was so successful that today, prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, breastfeeding, and health care for infants are covered in the nation's core literacy curriculum through Egypt's national adult literacy network, the General Authority for Literacy and Adult Education (GALAE). Read more
Africans Helping Africans Live with and Learn about HIV and AIDS.
Ugandan community facilitators lead a workshop that includes discussion about HIV prevention.
Sharing experiences and lessons between programs and countries can be an effective way to expand social change. Recently, World Education supported two members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a South African grassroots advocacy organization by and for people living with HIV and AIDS, to work with a similar Ugandan organization on effective advocacy strategies and treatment literacy training. Read more
World Ed and Metlife Foundation Link Plain Language to Healthier People. Since 1999, World Education and the Metropolitan Life Foundation of New York have worked together to develop plain language, simple-to-understand information on important issues of individual and family health.

It is well known that when a person can’t read well, he or she is less likely to succeed in school, find a good job, or make enough money. But people who can’t read well also tend to get sick more often and die at younger ages than people with strong reading skills. Read more
Will Parish Joins World Education Board of Trustees.
Learn more about Will.
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