A Dallas news article on Bush's African legacy: it relates how Bush made HIV prevention a priority, with bipartisan support...and the program continues under President Obama...
And now the fight goes on against cervical cancer, with stress on giving the HPV vaccine. No coloposcopes and few physicians, so they are using the old fashioned vinegar test we used to use, and then using a digital camera to take a photo.
Treating with liquid nitrogen will cure the early lesions...
a more technical article on the cervical cancer initiative HERE.
not mentioned in the report: the organization is also quietly pushing circumcision...
this link has pretty well been known since a 1911 study showed that Jewish women, although living in the slums of NYCity, had a very low rate of cervical cancer (and it was highest in sex workers).
Headsup theAnchoress.
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