For the Middle East to progress, women need to have a ticket to ride.

... according to the UN AIDS 2012 report , MENA is one of only two regions in the world with growing numbers of HIV/AIDs cases. Recently, a thirty two country survey found that women with post-primary education were five times more likely than ...

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