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BBC, United Kingdom 01/07/2007 Growing numbers of Ugandan men are being circumcised, after medical research showed it could halve the HIV infection rate among heterosexual men.
A Ugandan paper reports that last year of 2,500
people circumcised at various clinics, half of them were male
adults, compared to less than 400 in 2005.
A hospital official said they were increasing their provision to
cope. Uganda is often held up as a model of how to fight HIV/Aids, with
infection rates falling from 15 to 5%.
Studies conducted by the US National Institutes of Health last
year, found new HIV infections among circumcised heterosexual men in
Uganda and Kenya had dropped by approximately 50%. The findings were hailed as a breakthrough. Uganda's Health Ministry has set up a committee to scrutinize the
research findings before they come up with a circumcision policy.
"The government is cautious about these findings to avoid a
situation whereby people become reckless in belief that after
circumcision they can not contract the virus," said the BBC's Ally
Mutasa in Kampala. The Director of Kibuli Muslim hospital Dr Mahmoud El Gazar said
they were affected by the increasing numbers of clinical male
circumcisions being demanded. "We carry out circumcision two days a week but we are
contemplating adding another day," he told Uganda's Daily Monitor
newspaper. Our reporter says increased demand for circumcision is also being
attributed to the conversion of some men to Islam. Few cultural groups in Uganda circumcise boys before they are
accepted as men in the society, but researchers say the HIV
infection patterns in the country appear to be similar in both
circumcising and non-circumcising groups.
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