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Skin bleaching in Africa: An 'addiction' with risks

In many countries, skin lightening cream is mixed in beauty salons or backstreet shops [AFP] 

Dr. Isima Sobande was in medical school when she first heard of mothers who bleached the skin of their babies.

She dismissed it as an urban myth. But it wasn't long before she saw it with her own eyes.

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