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THE Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation will soon introduce
circumcision programme for children under the age of 15 to help curb
HIV/Aids in the country. Homa Bay branch DASCOP coordinator Alice
Nyambai said they hope to introduce the program to children under 15
years, as a way of supplementing the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
(VMMC) exercise.
Nyambai said that the programme will help in the reduction of
HIV/AIDS infections as more males get circumcised in the region despite
being more affordable as compared to the VMMC.
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Dozens of billboards emblazoned with the message “Circumcision — one
of the top defenders against HIV and Aids” are now a common sight on
major roads in Harare.
Such loud advertisements, alongside an aggressive campaign in
newspapers and on air, form part of a multi-million-dollar campaign
aimed at encouraging sexually active men to get circumcised as a way of
reducing the risk of contracting HIV.
Recently, Members of the House
of Assembly and leading celebrities were roped into the campaign to try
and encourage more men within the 15 and 49 age group to get
circumcised.
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However, what is clear to many is that circumcised youths have turned to
sexually risky behaviour in the false belief that circumcision gives
them an “invisible condom”.
Others are of the view that Africa might have been sold a ruse by the WHO in cahoots with Western researchers.
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