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Female circumcision, also called female genital mutilation, is another case in point. It involves removing part or all of a girl's clitoris and labia in an effort to reduce female sexual desire and thereby preserve chastity. FGM is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and in Egypt, with scattered cases in Asia and other parts of the Middle East. The World Health Organization estimates that up to 140 million girls and women have undergone the procedure. Some Muslims believe it is mandated by Islam, but the practice predates Muhammad and is also common among some Christian communities...
...Many Tuareg who have shunned city life make camp with government-issue tents instead of animal skins and wooden poles. Tagella, an unleavened flatbread, is still a staple. But these days, it's dipped in "apricot jam that must rival tinned sardines as colonialism's most profound legacy to Saharan nutrition...
...Hopeful as the initial signs may be, however, don?t look for the Yerkes vaccine to hit the U.S. anytime soon. The first place the vaccine would likely be used in a human form is in very high-risk areas like sub-Saharan Africa, where the infection rate has skyrocketed, immune systems are profoundly weakened, and any drug capable of depressing AIDS?s virulence could save millions of lives...
...cholesterol could not explain all heart attacks, then Ridker was determined to find out what else could. His childhood experience with his own immune disorder and his yearlong fellowship in sub-Saharan Africa in 1983, just as the AIDS epidemic was beginning its sweep around the globe, convinced him that preventing disease was as important as treating conditions once they occurred...
...risks of change but also at the potential benefits and the cost of inertia. For example, 40 countries are not on track to meet the UN Millennium Goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 2015. Twenty-one of those countries are in sub-Saharan Africa...