Washington Post, April 23, 2007
To the Editor:
How many studies will it take to convince the Bush administration that abstinence-only programs are not only misguided but potentially damaging to young people's health? These programs are directed not just toward young people here in the United States. Our government is exporting them to hundreds of millions of young people in low-income countries that receive

New York Times, April 5, 2007
To the Editor:
Male circumcision may not be brain surgery, but that does not mean that it is simple to provide safely in countries with weak public health services.

Lancet, January 6, 2007
Your powerful Editorial (Oct 21, p 1393) (¹⁾ and the reports on which it comments are groundbreaking. We note with dismay, however, that most of the reports' recommendations focus on succour and justice for women and children after the fact. Even more stunning is their silence on the need for men to change their behaviour as well as the need to change the social norms that support extreme mistreatment of girls and women.

International Herald Tribune, September 28, 2006
Regarding "Prudence's struggle ends" by Nicholas Kristof (Views, Sept. 25): Twenty years ago in Douala, Cameroon, I witnessed the same kind of death that Kristof saw in Yokadouma—women and girls with obstructed labor and botched abortions left to die, the one doctor totally overwhelmed and without basic supplies.