Female circumcision a problem in Britain
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Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite efforts to stamp it out. London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, hopes a campaign beginning on Wednesday will highlight that the practice is a crime here.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's "Frisky Fifties" have swapped the boardroom for the bedroom but one in 10 could be putting themselves at risk of infection by having sex without a contraceptive, a survey showed on Thursday.
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Plastic surgeons have raised concerns about sales of cosmetic treatments through a UK clothing catalogue.
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Rising numbers of women in Britain are seeking state-funded cosmetic surgery on their genitals, doctors said on Friday.
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The UN children&#39;s fund on Monday called for pressure to be maintained to stop female circumcision in Egypt, where more than three quarters of 15 to 17 year-old girls are subjected to the practice.
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&quot;We urgently need a long-term approach to the HIV epidemic that addresses the specific needs of women. Women In developing countries are increasingly more vulnerable than men to HIV and AIDS.
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl  and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring  pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate  in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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Egypt has banned all female circumcision after the death this week of a 12-year-old girl undergoing the widely practised procedure.
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Britain is proposing to remove the term  &quot;prostitute&quot; from the criminal statutes because it carries too  much stigma.
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South African Aids experts call for mass circumcision after studies showed it reduced HIV infections.
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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Cervical screening should be reinstated in England for women in their early 20s, researchers say.
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The Metropolitan Police announced on Wednesday that they are offering a 20,000-pound reward for information that brought anyone carrying out female circumcision in London to justice.
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Hundreds of GP surgeries across the UK are "not fit for purpose", a study suggests.
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AIDS experts have called for a mass circumcision programme in South Africa, condemning a &quot;deafening silence&quot; from policy makers since studies revealed it sharply cut infection rates.
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Police in eastern England are telling local women to wear nice knickers and have a wax before getting fuelled up on booze, newspapers reported.
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LONDON  - Doctors performed a record number of abortions in England and Wales in 2003, with almost two percent of women aged 15 to 44 choosing to end a pregnancy, according to health ministry figures published in the British press.