Kenya HIV/AIDS: The Cutting Edge (multimedia)
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| Boys waiting to be circumcised at Migosi health centre, Nyanza |
KISUMU, 24 June 2008 (PlusNews) – The reproductive health NGO, Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK), has started a mobile circumcision pilot project in the western, largely non-circumcising province of Nyanza.
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IRIN/PlusNews recently visited one MSK mobile clinic in a suburb of Kisumu, the capital of Nyanza, where a large number of men and boys turned up for the procedure.
Kenya is preparing to roll out a national campaign to promote male circumcision as a tool in the prevention of HIV/AIDS, following studies in 2006 that showed the procedure to reduce a man’s risk of contracting HIV by as much as 60 percent.
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[...] Kenya HIV/AIDS: The Cutting Edge (multimedia)Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN Boys waiting to be circumcised at Migosi health centre, Nyanza KISUMU, 24 June 2008 (PlusNews) – The reproductive health NGO, Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK), has started a mobile circumcision pilot project in the … [...]
HIV-AIDS » Gender, HIV / AIDS and the UNGASS. Fact sheet.
26 June 2008
I’m curious as to how that works. I had never heard that circumcision was a factor in a male’s ability to contract HIV. Amazing that it reduces risk by such a high percentage.
Dagny
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