Medical evidence shows circumcision is effective in battling HIV

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'In a Q&A with GlobalPost, Dr. Dino Rech, regional clinical consultant for Population Service International/Society for Family Health, discusses his experiences in scaling up male circumcision programs across southern Africa, including in Zambia, Swaziland, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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Obviously you’ve got feminist groups that are worried that men will get circumcised and then pressurize women to have sex without a condom. But you try to convince them that this [male circumcision] happens as part of a complete package. People get counseled twice, three times, four times even before they can undergo the procedure. They get counseled at two follow-up visits. People get a huge amount of information telling them that this is not full protection, it’s just partial protection as part of an HIV program.
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Rech: No. In every country you do surveys and there seems to be this huge demand, but when you start services, it kind of trickles in. People are apprehensive — people don’t want to be the first one to have it done. Slowly, with word of mouth and as a good resource system is put in place, more people start coming. We haven’t launched on a huge scale anywhere with mass media campaigns. The President of Zambia yesterday [Nov. 3] for the first time kind of endorsed male circumcision. Slowly things like that will start to see greater demand happening. But it’s a slow process, you know. It’s not men queuing around the block for male circumcision. It takes a lot of work to get them there.'

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