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Easterly’s review of Helen Epstein’s new book

Bill Easterly has a review of Helen Epstein’s new book in the New York Review of Books. (This follows another largely favorable review in the New York Times). The New York Review has been a frequent outlet of her work which we have written about. Her book summarizes a lot of her pathbreaking reporting on […]

Bush Administration to fund male circumcision

We’ve post on this before, but male circumcision is getting more support from the Bush Administration as a prevention strategy in the fight against AIDS (see here and here). From today’s Washington Post: Circumcision funding would be small at first, with budgets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for individual countries. The cells in […]