Kenya: Women Urged to Back Circumcision

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2012-09-28 17:43

Article here. Excerpt:

'A task force in Nyanza wants women to encourage their husbands and boyfriends to get circumcised.

The chairman of the task force on male circumcision, Jackson Kioko, told a stakeholders' forum yesterday that women must be incorporated in the programme for better results.

"Now we must reach out to men who have been slow to embrace medical male circumcision despite being aware of its benefits. HIV peaks after 24 years. Therefore, those men at 25 and above are at risk and in need of VMMC services. Reaching out to this age group will require women," said Kioko.

Kioko said women will be key driving forces behind the attainment of the targeted age group since male circumcision involve their health as well. He said the success achieved in circumcising over 500,000 men was due to the influence and role of the women in inspiring men to go for the cut and called on the women to continue with the campaign.'

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This will work, I'm afraid to say. This has some parallels with the notorious White Feather campaigns in the UK during the First World War. Women can often get men to do what government coersion can't. And if women can shame men to die in their thousnds, I'm afraid they can peruade them to mutilate themselves too.

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Submitted by sirprince on Sat, 2012-09-29 11:49