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Health >  Experiences of health and medical issues
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'I thought Americans invented HIV to discourage sex'

Health: Joe-Joe Baysah, the first man to publicly declare his HIV status in Liberia, describes the outreach work he is doing there

Article photo'There is shock, hemorrhaging, infection, sterility'

Health: Female genital cutting affects 140 million girls around the world. Tante Mado, a midwife from Guinea, has taken a radical stand against it

Article photoWest Bank: 'You can't imagine people are being killed'

Health: 86-year-old Israeli nurse Pnina Feiler explains why she volunteers at a free clinic in a Palestinian refugee camp

'I needed seven courses of chemotherapy'

Health: Male Cancer Awareness Month kicks off today. Martin Carter describes how an abnormality in his testicles led to lengthy chemotherapy treatment and a major operation

Laughing in the face of cancer

Health: June is Male Cancer Awareness Month. Here, Darren Couchman describes the moment he was diagnosed with testicular cancer

'I was quarantined in China'

Health: Daniel Dumbrill describes the moment he was quarantined by the Chinese authorities following a suspected swine flu outbreak

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