Girls flee circumcision in Kenya

Female circumcision is a topic no one should have to talk about in this day and age.  You would think it's something of generations past, in someone else's world.  Yet around two million young girls are...

Sex diseases 'double in over-45s'

I think young generation need to know how danger sex disease.... as we can see, there's no cure for HIV... the only cure is to keep our life balance, spiritual and emotional       " ...

Female circumcision: a tradition steeped in blood

Culturally sensitive or not this practice has to be controlled as does the practice of 'forced marriage' and so called honour killings."Police are to stage high-profile checks on flights to a number of African...

Egyptian People's Assembly Approves Child Laws, Makes FGM a Crime

"By Safaa Abdoun and Lina MarwanFirst Published: June 8, 2008CAIRO: The People’s Assembly approved amendments to Child Law 12/1996 drafted by the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) after months-long debates.One of the most welcome articles was one...

Protection of Children's Rights debated in Egypt's Assembly

"CAIRO, June 3, 2008: Amidst heated debate, Egypt's  People’s Assembly continued discussing amendments to Child Law 12/1996, which aims to extend the legal protection of children.On March 4, President Hosni Mubarak signed the final version of the amendments...

Egyptian Gives Birth To A Child Like Frog

In an unbelievable phenomenon that happened in Luxor, Egypt, and I think will never happen again, A strange Child has been born in a shape like frog. The Egyptian woman gave birth to an incomplete gential child...

Female Circumcision Death in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso was one of the first coutnries to outlaw female circumcision, and has been training government employees to pursue reports of the practice. However, the procedure still takes place in some areas."The death of a 14-year-old girl from female genital...

Sex lubricant could stop HIV and herpes

"AN experimental sex lubricant designed by Australian researchers could help block both HIV and genital herpes, a study suggests.Tests on lab animals have shown that the microbicide gel, called Viva Gel, inactivates the HIV virus and another responsible for genital herpes."

NPR not Allowed to say "genital warts" ?

Whatever happened to the journalist's obligation to inform the public? I listened to this interview conducted by NPR's Linda Wertheimer with Dr. Jeanne Santoli of the CDC and came away stunned at how they could omit the two most obvious and important points of the whole...

Size Matters More To Men Than Women: 60 Year Review

You read right, a 60 year review...please, all jokes aside.Women are fraught with attacks on their self esteem daily, via beauty and fashion ads featuring 13 year old girls posing as women. Yet, a recent study...

New vaccine courting much controversy

"Physician Lisa Thorn would like to see a vaccine that protects her patients from cervical cancer become a state mandate."Whatever happened to individual rights?

Father convicted in genital mutilation (AP)

" LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - An Ethiopian immigrant was convicted Wednesday of the genital mutilation of his 2-year-old daughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in what was believed to be the first such criminal case in the United States. Khalid Adem, 30, was found guilty...

syphilis - a sexually transmitted infection

"Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Symptoms may go away without treatment, but the disease will progress. It is usually spread when an infected person has anal, vaginal or oral sex without a condom. Babies born to mothers infected with syphilis may have...

Indonesia bars doctors from female genital cutting (Reuters)

" JAKARTA (Reuters) - Doctors and nurses in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, can no longer perform female genital cutting, a senior Health Ministry official said on Wednesday. Some Indonesian communities encourage parents to cut parts of a newborn...

Genital Mutilation - A human right violation

"it can involve the removal of all external genitalia and the stitching up of the labia leaving only a very small opening for sex, urination, menstruation and giving birth. This often makes a later operation necessary to create a larger opening."

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