2013-06-24 Uganda Picks - "Mbale Residents Flee Forceful Circumcision"

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If you are an adult male who has been planning to visit Mbale anytime this week, then you might as well postpone your visit unless you want to be circumcised in the streets. The youth in Mbale are on the run following the forceful circumcision campaign that started last week.
The operation is being spearheaded by the Mbale male Bagisu youth against their colleagues that have not been circumcised. Business in the town has been affected as the uncircumcised have begun fleeing lest they be injured and ruthlessly circumcised.

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2015-09-08 AIDS Behav. - Circumcision Status and Time to Sexual Debut Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Six Demographic and Health Surveys

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    1 Department of Geography, Western University

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between circumcision status and timing of sexual debut among unmarried youth in Sub-Saharan Africa using Demographic and Health Surveys. Results from survival analysis indicate that the association between circumcision and timing of first sex is place and context specific. Compared to uncircumcised, circumcised men in Rwanda, Uganda and Namibia hasten sexual initiation, whilst circumcised youth in Ethiopia and Mali delayed sex initiation. In Togo however, we found parity in timing to sexual debut. Our multivariate results reveal that, knowledge of HIV/AIDS risk and educational level also feed into the association between circumcision and timing of sex initiation- implying that efforts to prevent new HIV infection through circumcision could benefit from a proper understanding of how diverse set of factors interact in specific contexts to shape youth's decisions to initiate early sex.

PMID: 26350790

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26350790

2015-09-24 eTurboNews - "Tourism clusters to be launched as part of this year’s World Tourism Day Celebrations"

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In a bid to strengthen service delivery,Uganda's Ministry of Tourism Wildlife & Antiquities (MTWA) is developing a framework under which regional clusters are to be formed.

In a communique from the Ministry inviting representatives from the different regions, to kick off this year’s World Tourism Day activities, a tourism cluster workshop has been scheduled for 25th and 26th of September 2015 at Gracious Palace Hotel in Lira district located in northern Uganda. The workshop is designed to develop capacity of the tourism clusters and to develop strategic work plans for implementation and in view of attracting funding.

Funded by (united Nations Development Programme) UNDP, the workshop shall also benchmark best practices from the South African experience and identify Unique Sales Propositions for each cluster .
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So far the response has been positive with several clusters identifying unique selling products ranging from Bull fighting and Imbalu (male circumcision)

URL: http://www.eturbonews.com/64136/tourism-clusters-be-launched-part-year-s-world-tourism-day-celeb

2015-09-23 Daily Monitor - Editorial: Check forced circumcision

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We reported last week about the forced circumcision of 25 pupils from Oderai Primary School in Soroti Sub-county, Soroti District in eastern Uganda. The exercise, which targeted pupils of 11 and 15 years, is said to have been facilitated by a non-governmental organisation.

The exercise was a traumatic one for the pupils some of whom had adverse reactions to the circumcision. According to their parents, one pupil disappeared while another refused to return to school.

The Ministry of Education should intervene in this matter to establish how the school administration managed to overstep their mandate to the extent of sanctioning such a life-changing medical procedure on underage individuals without their parents’ consent.

In fact, the entire district administration should be investigated because the school head claimed she released the pupils due to the involvement of district medical workers.
The official claim is that the district workers were merely doing their duty as per a government programme sanctioned by the district. However, if there are complications arising from this exercise, ultimately it is the parents who will bear the cost of medical bills and emotional trauma.
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The hurried way in which the circumcision of the Soroti pupils was done raises questions about the objectives of those who carried it out. Is this a district wide exercise that they intended to carry out in other schools? Authorities in the ministries of Health and Education should come out and pronounce themselves clearly on this exercise.

URL: http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Check-forced-circumcision/-/689360/2881298/-/rjd7hbz/-/index.html

2015-09-19 Daily Monitor (Uganda) - Parents protest forced circumcision of children

Cite as:  Onyango, J.E. (2015) Parents protest forced circumcision of children Daily Monitor 19 September 2015 Full-text available at http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Parents-protest-forced-circumcision-of-children/-/688334/2876206/-/gvf444/-/index.html Accessed: 28 October 2015. Archived by Bodily Autonomy Watch at http://bodilyautonomywatch.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-09-19-daily-monitor-uganda-parents.html

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Parents have protested the circumcision of their underage children studying at Oderai Primary School in Soroti sub-county, Soroti District.

At least 25 pupils were circumcised on Monday without consent of their parents and most of them have since not returned to school.

The exercise targeted children from Primary Three to Primary Seven aged between 11 to 15. They were circumcised at Soroti Health Centre III. The exercise was facilitated by Baylor Uganda, a non governmental organisation.

Parents said the circumcised children preferred to stay back at their respective homes because they are still feeling pain.

Archived URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20151028045624/http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Parents-protest-forced-circumcision-of-children/-/688334/2876206/-/gvf444/-/index.html

2015-09-16 Daily Monitor (Uganda) - Baby loses penis during circumcision

Cite as: Basiime & Atuhaire (2015)  Baby loses penis during circumcision Daily Monitor 16 September 2015 Full-text available at http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Baby-loses-penis-during-circumcision/-/688334/2871830/-/9w2t1t/-/index.html Accessed: 28 October 2015. Archived by Bodily Autonomy Watch at http://bodilyautonomywatch.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-09-16-daily-monitor-uganda-baby.html
 
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Kabarole. A six-months-old baby in Fort Portal has lost his penis during circumcision, a procedure his mother claims she never authorised.
Ms Rosette Katushabe, a resident of Rwengoma village in Fort Portal municipality, says her baby was on September 2 circumcised by a sheikh without her consent.
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Previous cases
In 2013, a 44-year-old lost his penis to a botched male medical circumcision procedure in a private clinic in Kawempe Division, Kampala. The man said the circumcision was free, but he had to pay shs20,000 for the drugs. He said he woke up three hours after the procedure to find his penis stiff and was removed days later at Mulago hospital when it darkened and began peeling off.

Archived URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20151028042614/http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Baby-loses-penis-during-circumcision/-/688334/2871830/-/9w2t1t/-/index.html