This report presents an overview and recent statistics about female genital mutilation, or cutting; a summary of approaches to abandoning the practice; and brief discussions of projects in Egypt, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda. Offers guidance to policymakers and programme managers involved in implementing the abandonment of female genital mutilation
This report gives an update on AIDS and traditional medicine in Africa. It continues to discuss the integration and collaboration of traditional medicine with national health care systems. Eight intervention projects in the resource-constrained settings of sub-Saharan Africa are selected from all interventions involving traditional healers and then compared