Kenya: Rising demand for male circumcision

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2008-10-11 11:48

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'KISUMU, 9 October 2008 (PlusNews) - Health facilities in Nyanza Province in western Kenya are struggling to meet the demand for medical male circumcisions since politicians threw their weight behind efforts to promote the procedure as a way of reducing HIV infections.

The campaign initially faced opposition by community elders of the ethnic Luo community that makes up the bulk of the province's inhabitants and does not traditionally practice circumcision. But local leaders, swayed by calls from Kenya's Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, and research demonstrating the HIV prevention benefits of being circumcised, have since said they would set an example by undergoing the procedure themselves.'

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I don't understand how people could be so ignorant. HIV and circumcision have nothing to do with one another. It's like diet and the weather. If being circumcised prevented HIV, then by that same logic, a circumcised man could have sex without a condom, and not contract the disease. It's simply not true. But I guess some will go to any lengths to promote unnecessary male mutilation.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
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Submitted by xtrnl on Sun, 2008-10-12 20:30