Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a traditional practice inflicted on girls and women. The procedure involves the partial or total removal of the external female genital causing injury to the female genital organs. The practice is widely recognised as a violation of human rights, which is deeply rooted in cultural beliefs and perceptions over decades […]
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The frustrating reason we’re not saving more kids from malaria
Malaria kills more than a thousand children every day. Measures like antimalarial medications and insecticide-treated bed nets, which stop infected mosquitoes from transmitting the disease-causing parasite to people while they sleep, have saved millions of lives at a relatively low cost. Yet despite these interventions, which reduced mortality by about 29 percent, over 430,000 children […]

