special correspondent fred de sam lazaro visited the west african nation of senegal. report is part of our "agents for change" series. and a note: some viewers may find the subject matter troubling. >> reporter: as dusk approaches, a group called tostan sets up a giant screen in this remote village in senegal. to overcome language barriers, the feature will be a 1929 buster keaton silent film. the film is a hit. so were events put on earlier in the day by tostan. it's mission is to teach about human rights, specifically the right to health, but its seminars and skits often lead to a discussion of an age old custom: female genital cutting. >> ( translated ): she needs to be cut. all girls need that. you can't have a recognized marriage if she's not cut. >> reporter: this painful rite of passage is practiced by both muslims and christians across a swath of mostly african nations, from senegal to egypt. each year, the world health organization says up to three million girls in africa are subjected to genital mutilation, and up to 140 million women live with its consequen

. >> that is more friendly do business is it is done almost free to do it but in senegal you are talking months and months of operations and thousands of miles going office to ofce and a few thousand dollars. not everybody can dohat. john: one more modern accessible example is ebay. >> they wanted to license it as if it was a real auction dirt. john: it already existed. >> but in france you have to have a license because it is an auction it tookuch longer to get ebay going in france because of this. john: three years of disputes. >> you don't have time to mess around and now it is the largest eonomy on earth and had every country had these obstacles we may not have the day which would be extraordinary. john: the assumption in america these regulations are needed to protect consumers from your enttepreneurial agreed in to protect us from the big business. >> in every case they use it to keep the small guys out. >> they are happy if it keeps small entrepreneurs like you out? >> ablutely. again i fight the with the national labor organization in a country like senegal it is lirally impossib

. >> that is more friendly do business is it is done almost free to do it butin senegal you are talking months and months of operations and thousands of miles going office to office and a few thousand dollars. not everybody can do tat. john: one more modern accessible example is ebay. >> they wanted to license it as if it was a real auction dirt. john: it already existed. >> but in france you have to have a license because it is an auction it took much longer to get ebay going in france because of this. john: three years of disputes. >> you don't have time to mess around and now it is the largest economy on earth and had every country had these obstacles we may not have the day which would be extraordinary john: the assumption in america these regulations are needed to protect consumers from your enttepreneurial agreed in to protect us from the big business. >> in every case they use it to keep the small guys out. >> they are happy if it keeps small entrepreneurs like you out? >> absolutely. again i fight the with the national labor organization in a count like senegal it isiterally imp

. >> woodruff: from the west african nation of senegal, fred

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some seven or eight years after senegal got its independence, there was a big epidemic of yellow fever, and it was all in children under 10 years of age, because they hadn't been vaccinated. when we started off at cdc, a lot of emphasis was on infectious diseases. that's really how cdc grew. but at the same time, i think there was a general feeling that infectious diseases were really conquered. it was really sort of a mopping up operation that we were about. the fact that malaria had disappeared from the united states, and we conquered smallpox in the americas in 1971 and worldwide in 1977, sort of lent us confidence that really, there wasn't much that we couldn't do. as a result, the center began to diversify, to broaden its focus. and so we expanded into chronic disease areas. the national institute for occupational safety and health was incorporated into cdc in the early 1970s. much more recently, we've gotten into areas surrounding injury control and prevention. and of course we realized in the last few years that the infectious disease agenda is not over. certainly it's not in th

there's a regional dimension to this, which extends from senegal to the other side of city and.if confirmed i look forward to working with all my colleagues in the effort to address the continuously worrisome threats of terrorism in this area. >> senator, i would in everything has said i'm also say the problem has gone beyond the sawtelle. flow of weapons from libya reaching as far as syria and other places of interest that matter in a very challenging security environment. more than ever we wreck as country is a global issue and i tend to not only draw around resources of state, but also countries and support efforts to dismantle, locate and destroy chemical weapons and material things left over from first of all gadhafi's collection of buttons over the years of ordinates another thing for most of the results of their own civil war, for a price a buyer. >> thank you gate senator corker. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for your testimony and families for being here. i guess i would ask the first question is would it be done to cause people to send you to libya? i know we t

it's not simply along the libyan-chadian border but there's a regional dimension which extends from senegal to the other side of sudan. if confirmed i look forward to working with all my colleagues in this effort to address the continuing -- continually worrisome threats of terrorism in the area. >> senator, i would also second everything that jim has said, and i would also say that the problem has gone even beyond sahel. we know that the flow of weapons from libya is reaching as far as syria and other places of interest, in a very challenging security environment, and i think more than ever we recognize that working with these countries is not a bilateral issue. a it's global issue, and i intend to not only draw on my colleagues around all of our resources at state, defense department, but also with other countries, who have assets and interests in the region, who are like-mined, who can support our effort to disarm, which we have been working on with the libbans, to dismantle man pad, to locate and destroy chemical weapons stores and a lot of the materiale and the things left over from ga

recognize that it is not simply along the border but there is a to this dimension which extends from senegalthe other side of sudan. if confirmed, i look forward to working with all of my colleagues in this effort to address the continually worrisome threats of terrorism in this area. senator, also i would second everything jim has said. i would say that the problem has gone beyond the border. we know the flow of weapons from in a rejects far as syria very challenging security environments. we recognize working with these countries is not a bilateral issue but a global issue. i intend to not only draw on my around all of our resources but also other countries who have assets and interests who are like-minded, who can support our efforts to disarm, which we have been working on with the libyans to pads and ton destroy chemical weapons and things that have been left over from cut off his collection of and alsover the years results of their own the civil war. >> thank you. , mr. chairman and thank you for your testimony and for the families for being here. i guess i would ask the first question

that it is not simply along the border but there is a regional dimension to this which extends from senegalall the way to the other side of sudan. if confirmed, i look forward to working with all of my colleagues in this effort to address the continually worrisome threats of terrorism in this area. >> senator, also i would second everything jim has said. i would say that the problem has gone beyond the border. we know the flow of weapons from libya rejects far as syria in a very challenging security environments. we recognize working with these countries is not a bilateral issue but a global issue. i intend to not only draw on my colleagues around all of our resources but also other countries who have assets and interests who are like-minded, who can support our efforts to disarm, which we have been working on with the libyans to dismantle man pads and to destroy chemical weapons and things that have been left over from cut off his collection of weapons over the years and also results of their own the civil war. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for your testimony and f