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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Egypt has fully banned the tradition that some call female circumcision and others call female genital mutilation. The government acted after a girl in southern Egypt died. Her mother took her to a docto

Cardiovascular Disease and Women

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: October 8, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says that each year almost seventeen-million people die of

Heart Disease: Treat or prevent

Unit 16 Text A Heart Disease: Treat or preven t one of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease. The death rate from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past

Female Genital1 Cutting

Broadcast: Feb 24, 2003 By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Activists for the rights of women have declared a yearly observance to oppose the cutting of female sex organs.

VOA慢速英语--肯尼亚女孩开发应用程序

Kenyan Girls Develop App to End FGM Five Kenyan schoolgirls have developed an app to help women and girls end female genital mutilation (FGM). The girls will soon take part in the yearly international Technovation competition in California. Technovat

Smoking, Fatty Diets, Stress Lead Global Heart Disease Risks

By David McAlary As the prevalence of heart disease increases worldwide, researchers have found that people in developing countries suffer from it for the same reasons people in industrial nations do.

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Conference in Kenya Pushes for Global Ban on Female Genital

By Cathy Majtenyi An international conference to press for the eradication of female genital mutilation in Africa and around the world opened in Kenya Thursday.

Fats and Alzheimer's Disease

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: July 30, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. A medical study says foods rich in a kind of fat may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. Alzhei

AS IT IS 2016-02-13 UN: More Female Genital Mutilation Than Thought

AS IT IS 2016-02-13 UN: More Female Genital Mutilation Than Thought Millions more girls and women are victims of female genital mutilation than previously thought, said the United Nations (UN). UNICEF is the UN childrens agency. They said in a report

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Outbreaks of Disease Cut World Meat Exp

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Outbreaks of Disease Cut World Meat Exports By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A United Nation

PBS高端访谈:塞内加尔女性痛苦的成长阶段

JEFFREY BROWN:Next: abandoning a widespread and painful rite of passage. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited the West African nation of Senegal. His report is part of our Agents for Change series. And a note: Some viewers may find the su

HEALTH REPORT - New Method to Find Alzheimer's Disease

HEALTH REPORT - New Method to Find Alzheimer's Disease By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A computer picture of a brain affected b

HEALTH REPORT - Heart Disease in Women

HEALTH REPORT - Heart Disease in Women By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Studies show that many American w

2007年VOA标准英语-Livestock Disease Spreads in Britain as Contain

By Sonja Pace London 07 August 2007 British police officers block a public footpath leading to a farm outside Normandy, England, where a nsecond outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was was discovered Tuesday, 7 Aug. 2007 Foot and mouth disease has spr

2007年VOA标准英语-Surgery Helps Women Recover from Female Genital

By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 17 July 2007 Groundbreaking reconstructive surgery for women who have undergone gential mutilation is being performed in Burkina Faso. Despite efforts across Africa to stop the practice of excision, includin

VOA常速英语2008年-Female Genital Mutilation Still Common in Somal

By Cathy Majtenyi Somaliland 03 March 2008 Female genital mutilation, or FGM, is a traditional practice that is performed throughout the Horn of Africa and other parts of the continent. The procedure is often called female circumcision, and it is ill

2007年VOA标准英语-Eritrea Bans Female Genital Mutilation

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 05 April 2007 The Eritrean government has banned the practice of female genital mutilation. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. Proclamation 158 went into force on the last day of March. It mandates jail terms or fi

2007年VOA标准英语-UNICEF Urges End to Female Genital Mutilation i

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 September 2007 The United Nations Children's Fund says the practice of female genital mutilation remains unacceptably high in Egypt.But, a UNICEF representative tells VOA the Egyptian government is committed to ending this