Kenya school sends 20 boys home to be circumcised
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NYERI, Kenya  - A Kenyan secondary school sent 20 boys home to protect them from being bullied because they were uncircumcised, the school's principal said on Tuesday.
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Circumcision, as supporters call it, or female genital mutilation, as opponents refer to it, was suddenly a ferocious focus of debate in Egypt this summer.
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Activists intensified pressure on African governments to outlaw female circumcision, a custom that has afflicted up to 130 million women and children across the world.
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Just a few hours after youngsters at a children's home in western Kenya finished the soccer game, their fellow players turned on them.
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LAST week 600 youths who pledged to abstain from sex till marriage gathered in Kampala for a convention. This is a good development because it popularises one of the key pillars in fighting AIDS.
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Ethnically driven violence intensified in Kenya on Sunday, and police officials said at least 19 people, including 11 children, were burned to death in a house.
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HAMMOND, Ind. - Classrooms were a little less crowded at Morton High School on the first day of classes: 128 students were sent home for wearing the wrong clothes.
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Male circumcision could prevent millions of HIV infections every year and play a major role in controlling the virus&#39; spread in developing nations, a major AIDS conference was told Tuesday.
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By Hana Shazwin Azizan  A GROUP of Malaysian schoolchildren was in Nairobi recently to discuss environmental awareness with students and leaders of other nations. HANA SHAZWIN AZIZAN, 16, the youth co-ordinator of the Tree Theatre Group, describes her experience there.
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Nigerian health officials on Wednesday said an outbreak of measles in a village in the northern state of Borno had killed 20 children and caused a further 100 children to be hospitalised.
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Male circumcision halved a man's risk of being infected by the virus that causes AIDS in heterosexual intercourse, according to results of two large clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda announced on Wednesday.
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South Africa and other African nations hard hit by AIDS should consider a mass campaign to circumcise males to help stem the spread of the epidemic, researchers at a major AIDS conference in South Africa said.
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A mob torched a church where hundreds had sought refuge Tuesday, and witnesses said dozens of people Â including children Â were burned alive or hacked to death with machetes in ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed election.
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Ethnically driven violence intensified in Kenya on Sunday, and police officials said at least 19 people, including 11 children, were burned to death in a house by a mob.
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Scientific studies have confirmed a long-standing belief that male circumcision can reduce HIV infection rates in men by 60 percent, an international AIDS conference will be told next week.
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Most Kenyans have welcomed the decision of the UN Security Council to hold its session on the peace initiatives in Sudan and Somalia in the capital, Nairobi.
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South African Aids experts call for mass circumcision after studies showed it reduced HIV infections.