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 There are approximately 58 million girls in the developing world who are not enrolled in school. Extensive evidence shows that unschooled girls are more likely to be poor,marry early, die in childbirth, lose a child to sickness, have multiple, closely-spaced births, and have children that are malnourished. Given that these events are likely to impose a significant cost on society as a whole, providing girls with equal access to and equitable opportunities within education proves to be a powerful investment for developing nations. With specific respect to the HIV/AIDS crisis, education has been called the social vaccine for the disease.
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