2015-10-06 Kisumu News (Kenya) - "Maseno Mission Hospital offers free medical male circumcision"

Cite as: Sosi, J (2015) Maseno Mission Hospital offers free medical male circumcision Kisumu News 06 October 2015 Full-text available at http://www.hivisasa.com/kisumu/health/83850 Accessed: 29 October 2015. Archived by Bodily Autonomy Watch at http://bodilyautonomywatch.blogspot.com/2015/10/2015-10-06-kisumu-news-kenya-maseno.html

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Maseno (A.C.K) Mission Hospital has urged the public to turn up for an ongoing free and voluntary medical male circumcision for those above the age of 10 years.

Mr.Joshua Kwendo Amburi, the amenity's public relations officer at the hospital has said willing men yet to undergo the noble exercise are encouraged come out. He also asked parents to take their male children over 10 years old to the health facility for the free medical exercise and not to wait for closure of schools as it is being conducted on a daily basis.

Mr.Amburi has also confirmed the accreditation of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) cards to cater for outpatients' medical bills and urges more people to take up the comprehensive health cover.

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2015-09-28 The Star (Kenya) - "New drive for men, infant circumcision"

Cite as: Matete, F (2015) New drive for men, infant circumcision The Star 28 September 2015 Full-text available at http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/new-drive-men-infant-circumcision Accessed: 29 October 2015. Archived by Bodily Autonomy Watch at http://bodilyautonomywatch.blogspot.com/2015/10/2015-09-28-star-kenya-new-drive-for-men.html

THE government has launched the second phase of the drive for voluntary medical circumcision of men and infants.

Representative of the Parliamentary Health Committee chairperson MP Paul Koinange said the drive targets more than one million men and infants below 60 days in the next five years.

He spoke on Friday during the launch of the circumcision strategy and a clinical manual at Tom Mboya Labour College in Kisumu.

Koinange said the government wants to increase the proportion of circumcised boys and men aged between 15 and 49 from 91 per cent to 95 per cent.

He said the drive aims to circumcise at least 40 per cent of infant boys after birth by 2019.

The Health ministry National Strategy 2014-19 says a pilot study in Nyanza to assess safety and acceptability of medical circumcision showed it is safe and accepted.

Koinange said circumcision will be offered in certain health facilities as part of the package of infant care.

Infant circumcision ensures boys grow up with lower HIV-Aids risk.

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2012-05-10 allAfrica.com - "Kenya: The Cut for Boys to Tame HIV"

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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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2013-07-22 The Star (Kenya) - "Met to get cash, food prizes for circumcision"

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Kenya National Male Circumcision task force and players in the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision have launched a pilot study to lure men within 24-49 years to circumcision. The  initiative is aimed at circumcising male adults. 
The awareness will start at greater Nyando before being rolled out to other parts of the region. The initiative will also provide food incentives, cash and shopping vouchers to families of those willing to be circumcised to entice more men  to be circumcised.

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2015-09-25 Kisumu County News (Kenya) - Nascop to launch second national circumcision strategy in Kisumu

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The National Aids and STI Control Programme (Nascop) is set to launch the second edition of the National Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) strategy in Kisumu on Friday.

The second national VMMC Strategy which covers from 2014-2019 will be launched at the Tom Mboya Labour College.

The secretary of the Inter Counties Task Force on VMMC, Isaac Oguma said in a statement that the strategy will guide in the implementation of VMMC activities for a five-year period.
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 As a result of this program, the national coverage of male circumcision has increased from 85 percent in 2007 to 91 percent in 2012 against a national target of 94%.

In Kisumu County alone, nearly 200,000 males are targeted during the second phase.

URL: http://www.hivisasa.com/kisumu/health/81591

2015-09-21 Global Fund - Results Report 2015

Cite as: Global Fund (2015) Results Report 2015 Global Fund 21 September 2015 Full-text available at http://www.theglobalfund.org/documents/publications/annual_reports/Corporate_2015ResultsReport_Report_en/ Accessed: 28 October 2015. Archived by Bodily Autonomy Watch at http://bodilyautonomywatch.blogspot.com/2015/09/httpwww.html

Except from the report:

Country Example – Kenya

With 1.6 million people living with HIV, Kenya has the fourthlargest number of people infected with the virus in the world. The number of new infections each year has dropped at a relatively slow pace. However, accelerated expansion of treatment has meant that many more people who contract HIV are staying alive.

About 700,000 people are now on HIV treatment in Kenya, and 53,000 women receive prevention of mother-to-child transmission services representing more than 70 percent coverage. Strong HIV testing campaigns have seen 75 percent of Kenyans test for the virus at least once. Fifty percent of people living with HIV in the country know their status. Also, expanded prevention efforts in providing voluntary medical male circumcision have led to 800,000 circumcisions.

Archived URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20151028041516/http://www.theglobalfund.org/documents/publications/annual_reports/Corporate_2015ResultsReport_Report_en/