Women's health

Shades of AIDS disinformation in Greece this week, from a ruling SYRIZA party MP and a physician specializing in infectious diseases no less, as Yiannis Mihelogiannakis told a television news program that the HIV virus is transmitted through … saliva.

Croatia may be a very Catholic country by secular European standards, but that has not stopped a satirical movie about the Church called "Svecenikova djeca" ("Priest's Children"), from being a hit with movie audiences.

Now it is going to shown to French audiences, too, supported by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon launched Oct. 30 a global campaign to end the often deadly practice of female genital mutilation within a generation, as survivors said it had "shattered" their lives.
      
"The mutilation of girls and women must stop in this generation, our generation," Ban said on a visit to the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
      

A court in Athens has temporarily stopped Greek authorities from expelling a Kenyan woman from the country because it deemed that she was in danger of suffering female genital mutilation if she returned to her homeland.