Inspiring a turnaround
Sarah Hemminger leads
a band of classmates
helping Dunbar students

One early January morning
two years ago, Johns
Hopkins medical student
Sarah Hemminger
strode purposefully down
Orleans Street to Paul Laurence Dunbar
High School, located a stone�s throw
away from the East Baltimore campus.
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Celebrating
JH�s African-
Americans
Student-written biographies of
influential African-Americans
throughout the university�s history
will be formally unveiled this Thursday,
Feb. 16, during a celebration honoring
the faculty, staff, students and financial
supporters behind
the African-Americans
at the Johns
Hopkins Institutions
Project.
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Male circumcision protects female partners from HIV
A statistical review of the past medical
files of more than 300 couples
in Uganda in which the female
partner was HIV negative and the male was
HIV positive provides solid documentation
of the protective effects of male circumcision
in reducing the risk of infection among
women. Male circumcision also reduced
rates of trichomonas and bacterial vaginosis
in female partners. The study is believed to
be the first to demonstrate the benefits to
female partners of male circumcision.
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