genital

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Halfway through college, Russell spent two months in Tanzania assisting a nonprofit that taught female genital mutilation survivors how to make clothes to support themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

The Gambia's Supreme Court began hearing a case this week brought by religious traditionalists who are hoping to topple the country's poorly enforced ban on female genital mutilation.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

It is a claim that has been linked to Koro syndrome, a mental illness otherwise known as missing or genital retraction hysteria.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

Dimie Ogoina, a clinician at Niger Delta University in Nigeria, was the first to see mpox patients with genital lesions 7 years ago.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 19, 2024

Thus, from our point of view, genital sores, diarrhea, and coughing are “symptoms of disease.”

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond