According to the WHO, it is practiced in 28 countries in western, eastern, and north-eastern Africa, in parts of the Middle East, and within some immigrant communities in Europe, North America, Australasia.

According to the WHO, 100 – 140 million women and girls are living with FGM, including 92 million girls over the age of 10 in Africa.

According to the World Health Organisation ( WHO ), over a third of people in most countries report problems at some time in their life which meet criteria for diagnosis of one or more of the common types of mental disorder.

According to spokesperson Vivian Tan of the WHO office in Beijing, " In cases like this August 2009, we encourage the authorities to identify cases, to investigate any suspicious symptoms among close contacts, and to treat confirmed cases as soon as possible.

According to a 2007 World Health Organization ( WHO ) report, 1. 1 billion people lack access to an improved drinking water supply, 88 percent of the 4 billion annual cases of diarrheal disease are attributed to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene, and 1. 8 million people die from diarrheal diseases each year.

According to the World Health Organization ( WHO ), an estimated 50, 000 to 100, 000 women develop obstetric fistulas each year and over two million women currently live with obstetric fistula.

According to the World Health Organization ( WHO ), maternal death is defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes.

According to the World Health Organization ( WHO ), more than a million people are killed on the world ’ s roads each year.

According to the WHO, in their guidelines on chiropractic practice, spinal manipulation is contraindicated for disc herniations when there are progressive neurological deficits.

According to WHO guidelines 2010, artemisinin-based combination therapies ( ACTs ) are the recommended first line antimalarial treatments for uncomplicated malaria caused by P. falciparum.

According to the WHO lexicon of alcohol and drug terms, habituation is defined as “ becoming accustomed to any behavior or condition, including psychoactive substance use ”.

According to World Health Organization ( WHO ), 15 % of the world's total population have disabilities.

According to a WHO report, about 48, 000 melanoma related deaths occur worldwide per year.

According to the WHO, 50 % of medical equipment in developing countries is only partly usable due to lack of skilled operators or parts.

According to the currently adopted definition by FAO / WHO, probiotics are: " Live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host ".

According to WHO " Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms ..." sobriety is continued abstinence from psychoactive drug use.

According to the WHO classification of the tumors of the central nervous system, the standard name for this brain tumor is " glioblastoma "; it presents two variants: giant cell glioblastoma and gliosarcoma.

According to WHO, " Pharmacovigilance activities are done to monitor detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of any obnoxious adverse reactions to drugs at therapeutic concentration that is used or is intended to be used to modify or explore physiological system or pathological states for the benefit of recipient.

According to the WHO, the tobacco industry must replace older quitting or dying smokers with younger consumers.

According to the WHO, the " precautionary principle " is " a risk management policy applied in circumstances with a high degree of scientific uncertainty, reflecting the need to take action for a potentially serious risk without awaiting the results of scientific research.

According to WHO intravenous AS is the drug of choice for severe malaria both in children and adults where there is low transmission.

According to WHO statistics infant mortality fell from 23 to 20 in males and 19 to 17 in females per 1000 births between 2003 and 2005.

While noting recent progress, The Lancet noted, " According to WHO, in 2007, nearly 2 billion individuals had insufficient iodine intake, a third being of school age.

According to WHO and Guttmacher, approximately 68, 000 women die annually as a result of complications of unsafe abortion ; and between two million and seven million women each year survive unsafe abortion but sustain long-term damage or disease ( incomplete abortion, infection ( sepsis ), haemorrhage, and injury to the internal organs, such as puncturing or tearing of the uterus ).

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

According to economist Eduard Aghajanov, Armenia could have repaid them with low-interest loans from other, presumably Western sources, or with some of its hard currency reserves which then totaled about $ 450 million.

According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.

According to some writers, he even raped Cassandra inside the temple.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

According to the Suda he wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments including some 130 titles survive.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

According to some scholars Ali ibn Yusuf was a new generation of leadership that had forgot the desert life for the comforts of the city.

According to some, however, she was killed by Telamon.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to their oral traditions, some time after the arrival of the Lemba with the Ark, it self-destructed.

According to some accounts, Hippotes married the same Melanippe who was the mother of Arne.

According to some accounts Aeacus was a son of Zeus and Europa.

According to some sources, the emir himself was behind Muhammad's fall, as well as Al-Mutarrif's death in 895.

According to some interpretations, the concept of ahimsa as expounded in the scriptures and law books is not meant to imply pacifism ; war is seen as a normal part of life and the natural duty of the warriors.

According to some scholars, he was more interested in spirituality than in critical text study, which was a specialty of many scholars at JTS.

According to some sources, Clinton was in his early years a death penalty opponent who switched positions.

According to Del Mar, this edition corrects nearly 3000 mistakes in the Breitkopf edition, some of which were remarkable.

According to accounts which vary in some of the details, in 340 BC the Byzantines and their allies the Athenians were under siege by the troops of Philip of Macedon.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

According to some Mahāyāna sources a bodhisattva is someone on the path to full Buddhahood.

According to the doctrine of some Tibetan schools ( like Theravāda but for different reasons ), only the first of these is recognized.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.