Genital mutilation a weapon in Kenya
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For two terrifying hours, the woman crouched inside her shop, watching as a gang attacked five men in the street, pulled down their trousers and sliced their genitals with rusty machetes.
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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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Violence in Kenya, one of its most stable nations, shows that the continent's old ills--poverty, corruption, tribalism--are far from cured
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Young men armed with machetes manned  roadblocks in Kenya on Wednesday as world powers stepped up  efforts to end a wave of tribal violence over a disputed  presidential election that threatens to tear the country apart.
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The post from World Health Organization researchers on the practice they call female genital mutilation (FGM) has prompted a couple of critical responses from other researchers. One is a comment from Richard Shweder of the University of Chicago, who calls it "bureaucratic boilerplate" and says it's further evidence that "identity politics has triumphed over science [...].
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AIDS-stricken Southern African nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on Tuesday.
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The free-love, extraterrestrial-themed Raelian Movement made headlines with its dubious claims of successful human cloning. Now it's enlisted top reconstructive surgeons in its latest cause: to restore women in Africa who've suffered genital mutilation.
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Many of Europe's African immigrants are subjecting their young daughters to ritual genital mutilation, and authorities are doing little to discourage it, a leading women's rights activist warned Thursday.
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The new government in Sierra Leone has vowed to outlaw female circumcision, a common practice in the West African country, the social welfare minister said Monday.
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Tryphina Ngwenya slides a pink condom over the magic wooden stick normally used to conjure up ancestral spirits, unleashing a ripple of laughter among her audience of traditional South African healers.
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Kenya is trying to rid itself of one of  the last vestiges of colonial rule.
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Severed heads displayed on poles, savagely mutilated bodies and dozens of deaths have sparked alarm in Kenya as a secret criminal society goes on the rampage and police launch bloody retaliation.
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Circumcision can dramatically cut the rate of HIV infection in heterosexual men, results from two African trials show.
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Circumcising adult men may cut in half their risk of getting the AIDS virus through heterosexual intercourse, the U.S. government announced Wednesday, as it shut down two studies in Africa testing the link.
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Victims of Kenya's independence war with Britain are to start proceedings to claim compensation.
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Two medical studies released yesterday confirm that widespread circumcision of adult men is a powerful weapon against HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa, a finding that appears destined to reshape AIDS prevention strategies.
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&quot;Traditional practices, such as genital mutilation, early marriage and the practice of newly bereaved widows being &#39;inherited&#39; by other male relatives also increased women&#39;s exposure to the virus,&quot; the human rights group reported.