SanyaSM/E+/Getty Images In 1974, the World Health Organization launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization or EPI. Now called the Essential Programme on Immunization, the EPI is an initiative to provide equitable access to vaccines for children around the world, regardless of their geographic location or socioeconomic status. Since its inception, approximately approximately 4 billion children...
Jordi Salas/Moment/Getty Images The first time I noticed dimples creeping across my ass I was thirteen. I went through puberty earlier than all my friends so not only was I one of the only girls in my class with breasts and hips, I now had cellulite. My body had changed so fast in a year....
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution What is it about summer camp that just sort of lives in our collective childhood nostalgia? I didn’t even go to summer camp that often, and yet I still romanticize the idea of it: the bunk beds, the campfire sing-alongs, the freedom of being untethered from family. Summer camp is a...
Bobbi Lockyer/Refinery29 Australia – We Are Many Image Gallery/Refinery29/Getty Images An itchy body part is always an inconvenience, but an itchy nipple? Dear Lord, there are few things worse. Unlike an itchy elbow or even a foot, it’s hard to subtly scratch your nipple without everyone noticing, and if you’re wearing a bra and a...