Assessing African countries' progress in implementing the millennium development goals, the report hailed "impressive gains" on enrolment in primary schools, women's political representation, reducing child and maternal deaths, and cutting the prevalence of HIV and Aids.
However, much work remains to be done to ensure these achievements contribute to the TB-related MDG of cutting the prevalence and death rate in half by 2015.
We essentially counted girls with henna on their feet and combined these figures with other sources of data to estimate the prevalence of cutting in each community.
We do that to save ourselves because TB is an airborne disease so if we contribute to cutting down on the prevalence levels, we save ourselves from high exposure; it will be limited.
The current high prevalence recorded in the cutting knife might be due to the high prevalence of Salmonella in meat samples which might act as a source of contamination for the knives and due to poor hygienic condition of knives.
The research team, from Equality Now and City University's School of Health Sciences, will analyse up-to-date statistics on the prevalence of ritual cutting from these countries and compare these with immigration rates into the UK.
Estimated prevalence of female genital cutting in Africa ranges from 98% in Somalia to less than 1% in Uganda [ 1, 2].
In the bivariate analysis, residing in a rural area was positively and significantly associated with the prevalence of female genital cutting (COR = 2.6; 95% CI =1.79, 3.78).
Among those variables entered, four of them (residence, grade level, father's education, and mother's education) were found to have significant independent associations with the prevalence of female genital cutting.
For the Vietnam-Theater-Veterans, the MMPI-PTSD prevalence estimates based on various cutting scores ranged from 6.4%to34.2%2%.
