Friday, January 05, 2007

Barefoot Mohels

USAID has temporarily halted financial support for the Barefoot Mohels Program.

The publication of recent studies of AIDS prevention in the US sparked a new WHO/USAID program to train barefoot mohels, village level health practitioners who could bring circumcision to poverty stricken rural areas.

Just as the new program began recruiting trainees, however, a scandal in New York City halted the program in its tracks.

Apparently religious mohels in NY and elsewhere sucked blood from their baby-patients and in 11 reported cases transmitted herpes to the infants with fatal consequences in some cases.

President Bush commented, "We must stop these baby cock-suckers!" His words have been heard around the world. From his mouth to the ears of God.

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