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South Africa: Prisoners (and priests!) to be circumcised
Submitted by Minuteman on Wed, 2010-11-03 04:38
Link to article here. Excerpt:
'The KwaZulu-Natal government will soon start circumcising prisoners to reduce HIV infections among inmates, says health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo.
“We will soon start circumcising prisoners in our campaign to reduce infections,” he said.
A total of 10, 229 male circumcisions had been done since the provincial government started the male medical circumcision programme in April this year.
Dhlomo said the department had a target of 2.5 million circumcisions by June 2014. Previously circumcisions among Zulus were conducted traditionally. With the permission from King Goodwill Zwelithini, government would be conducting them medically.
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Dhlomo said they would also circumcise priests.
“We believe that if we circumcise them, they will encourage members of their congregations to test.” '
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From "The Intactivism Pages".
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There will clearly be a strong degree of coercion exercised against these prisoners, but don't hold your breath waiting for Amnesty International to investigate.
Minuteman