"This book contributes to the understanding of certain communicable diseases, modes of transmission and their prevention. It is prepared for the public, public health agencies and the individual clinicians and other health care workers engaged in services to Somalis living abroad and inside the country, Somalia. The book assists health care workers and interpreters to provide appropriate medical and health education and diseas prevention services to Somalis in North America, Europe, and other continents. Somalis who can read the Somali language would benefit from the book and educate themselves about diseases that carry stigma and taboos among the Somali society."--Page 15.