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Kawango Agot is not a name that lends itself to easy assignment of gender even in Kenya. The owner of the name is variously presented as Prof. K. Agot, Dr. K. Agot, or K. Agot PhD M.P.H. and generally people let her go about “reading, writing and...
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A doctor from the Upper Egyptian city of Minya, center, talks to women at the home of a villager from Sultan Zawyit, Egypt, about the dangers of circumcising their daughters on Dec. 5, 2008. The talks are part of grass-roots efforts to stop the...
