The organization also calls for an increase in quality health care and an end to harmful traditional practices like female genital cutting.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

The research also shows circumcision reduces the risk for another common sexually transmitted infection, genital herpes.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

None had HIV, genital herpes or HPV at the start of the study.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

He also says traditional practices still common in the Kolda region, like female genital mutilation and forced early marriage, constitute forms of violence.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29